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what is vinegar?

Ice_Phoenix87
in Organic Chemistry

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vinegar is acetic acid, its formula is C2H4O2

sometimes known as Ethanoic acid also.

CH3CO2H.

 

it`s made by oxidizing Ethanol ( drinking alcohol)

hence Wine or Malt vinigars :)

It's generally expressed as COOH, not CO2H, btw.

  • 3 weeks later...

Acetic acid is an organic acid with the formula CH3COOH.

It is a weak acid.It is an important acid in industrial as well as lab use.

I can't see why not, but have read somewhere that you must neutralize the acetic with sodium hydroxide then distill the sodium acetate with sulphuric acid.

yeah, you`re alot more likely to get the glacial form that way as opposed to just strong acetic :)

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