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Acidity of Alcohols and Phenols

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Reason for excessive solubility of ethyl alcohol in water is due to:

A

Covalent bonding

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Ionic bonding

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C

Hydrogen bonding with water

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None of the above

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Solution

The correct option is C Hydrogen bonding with water
Water is a polar solvent and has hydrogen bonding , so for any other compound to dissolve in water , it must posses Polarity or H-Bond.
Ethyl alcohol shows presence of hydrogen bonding as well as it is polar due to high electronegativity of oxygen , due to this it is soluble in water.

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