Vinegar is the trade name of:

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Answer 1

The question asks for the chemical identity behind the common name vinegar.

Chloroform is used as a solvent and was once used as an anaesthetic, it has nothing to do with food vinegar.
Ethyl alcohol is the substance fermented further to make vinegar, but it is the precursor, not the final product people call vinegar.
Carbon tetrachloride is a toxic industrial solvent, never present in food items.
Bacterial oxidation of ethyl alcohol, $\mathrm{CH_3CH_2OH + O_2 \to CH_3COOH + H_2O}$, produces acetic acid, and a dilute aqueous solution of this acid is exactly what is sold and used as vinegar.

So vinegar is the trade name of acetic acid, option A.

Answer 2

The question asks for the chemical identity behind the common name vinegar.

Chloroform is used as a solvent and was once used as an anaesthetic, it has nothing to do with food vinegar.
Ethyl alcohol is the substance fermented further to make vinegar, but it is the precursor, not the final product people call vinegar.
Carbon tetrachloride is a toxic industrial solvent, never present in food items.
Bacterial oxidation of ethyl alcohol, $\mathrm{CH_3CH_2OH + O_2 \to CH_3COOH + H_2O}$, produces acetic acid, and a dilute aqueous solution of this acid is exactly what is sold and used as vinegar.

So vinegar is the trade name of acetic acid, option A.

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