Acetic acid is considered as alyphetic monocarboxylic acid

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.An aliphatic compound contains  carbon and hydrogen joined together in straight chains, branched trains or non-aromatic rings.
Acetic acid is considered as aliphatic mono carboxylic acid because it is an aliphatic compound and it contains only one carboxylic acid group in its structure.
Hence Due to aliphatic chain and presence of single carboxylic acid functional group it is called as aliphatic mono carboxylic acid.


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