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Nitrophenol is more acidic than phenol. ​

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The p- nitrophenol is more acidic than phenol because the deactivating nature of nitro group and after loosing the protons it makes more resonance stabilization as nitro group is having strong deactivating nature so it attracts electrons towards it.

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