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How can you distinguish acetic acid from acetone?

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ARIHANT PUBLICATION-CARBOXYLIC ACIDS -ODISHA BUREAU.S TEXTBOOK SOLUTIONS (C. SHORT ANSWER TYPE I QUESTIONS)
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  2. What happens when acetamide is boiled with NaOH solution?

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  3. Identify A and B C(6)H(5)COOHoverset(SoCl(2))rarrAunderset(Pd//BaSO(...

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  4. Distinguish between acetic acid and ethanol?

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  5. Explain why the bond length of C-O in carboxylic acid is slightly larg...

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  6. What happens when sodium propionate is heated with sodalime?

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  7. What happens when acetic acid reacts with ethyl alcohol in presence of...

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  8. How acetic acid is prepared from methyl cyanide?

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  9. What happens when sodium acetate is heated with sodalime?

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  10. What happens when formic acid reacts with acidified KMnO(4) solution?

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  11. Explain acetic acid is stronger acid than ethanol.

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  12. What is the reaction of acetic acid with lime water?

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  13. How can you get acetone from acetic acid?

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  14. What happens when formic acid reacts with mercuric chloride?

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  15. Arrange the following in the increasing order of acidic strength. (i...

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  16. How can you distinguish acetic acid from acetone?

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  17. How can you convert acetic acid to methyl amine?

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  18. Explain the reaction of formic acid with Fehling's solution.

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  19. Complete the following equation by writing the structures of A, B and ...

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  20. How can a carboxylic acid be converted to an aldehyde in two steps?

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