Acetic acid is a ____________ volatile acid than $H_{2} C O_{3}$ .

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Acetic acid $C H_{3} C O O H$ is less volatile acid than $H_{2} C O_{3}$ . This is because of the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonding in acetic acid which is absent in $H_{2} C O_{3}$ .

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