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Q.

Ethyl alcohol reacts at a faster rate with HI than with HCl in forming the corresponding ethyl halides under identical conditions mainly because

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a

HI, being a stronger acid, protonates ethyl alcohol at oxygen much better and helps substitution

b

the bond length in HI is much shorter than that in HI

c

Iis a much better leaving group

d

I is a much better nucleophile than Cl

answer is A.

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