Answer:
Ethanol gives a yellow precipitate
of iodoform on warming with iodine and sodium carbonate while methanol fails to
react.
\[\underset{\text{Ethanol}}{\mathop{{{C}_{2}}{{H}_{5}}OH}}\,+4{{I}_{2}}+3N{{a}_{2}}C{{O}_{3}}\xrightarrow{warm}\]\[CH{{I}_{3}}+HCOONa+5NaI+2{{H}_{2}}O+3C{{O}_{2}}\]
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