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Why acetic acid is called glacial acetic acid?

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Acetic acid that contains a very low amount of water (less than 1%) is called anhydrous (water-free) acetic acid or glacial acetic acid. The reason it's called glacial is that it solidifies into solid acetic acid crystals just cooler than room temperature at 16.7o C, which ice.

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