On Sept.3, 1866, during the Battle of Curuzu, one of the battles of the war of Triple Alliance, the Paraguayan 10th battalion fled without firing a shot. President Lopez ordered the decimation of the battalion, which was accordingly formed in line and each tenth man shot.
phenol is more acidic because of the benzene ring present in the molecule,when you lose the H form the OH group it is possible to delocalise the charge around the aromatic system due to the pi electron cloud,straight chain alcohols cannot do this so it is less favourable to deprotonate them hance it is easier to deprotonate a phenol,hence we say it ...
phenol red act as the pH indicator. As the substrate urea is split into products, the presence of ammonia caused alkaline environment that cause the phenol red to turn to deep pink. Useful to test Proteus vulgaris. 3 people found this useful.