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Industrial Preparation of Ethanoic Acid

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Why is acetic acid is known as glacial acetic acid

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Ethanoic acid or acetic acid freezes easily at the temperature of 290 degree kelvin and appears as the glacier.

Because of this freezing property it is known as glacial acetic acid.

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