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Give a chemical test to distinguish between the following.
Ethanol and ethyl amine.
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Official answer keyIodoform test test: reagent: I2 and KOH (NaOH), warm; positive: ethanol; observation: yellow ppt of iodoform; other: ethyl amine does not give the test
Ethanol gives iodoform test, yellow ppt with $\mathrm{I_2}$ and KOH, when heated; ethyl amine will not give this test.
From ISC 2025 Practice Chemistry, question 43(b).