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Q. The main product of the reaction of $ C{{H}_{3}}C{{H}_{2}}N{{H}_{2}} $ with nitrous acid is

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$ \underset{ethyl\text{ }amine}{\mathop{C{{H}_{3}}C{{H}_{2}}N{{H}_{2}}}}\,+\underset{\begin{smallmatrix} nitrous \\ acid \end{smallmatrix}}{\mathop{HN{{O}_{2}}}}\,\xrightarrow[{}]{{}} $ $ \underset{ethyl\text{ }alcohol}{\mathop{C{{H}_{3}}C{{H}_{2}}OH}}\,+{{N}_{2}}+{{H}_{2}}O $