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Arrange the following compounds in decreasing order of acidity.

H_{2}O, ROH, HC \equiv CH

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To determine the acidity of these given compounds, they are treated with water. So, when RONa is treated with water, it gets replaced by a stronger acid, and a similar happens with sodium ethynide on treatment with water and alcohol. The result is acetylene; this indicates that the strongest acids are water and alcohol. So the decreasing order of acidity of these compounds is-  H_{2}O > ROH > HC \equiv CH

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