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In organic chemistry, alpha hydrogen is attached to the carbon next to the functional group, for example, all the hydrogens on the carbon in CH3OH are alpha-H. We can identify acidic hydrogen by noting all those hydrogens which are either attached to an electronegative atom or any other atom which has a partial positive charge and thus starts pulling the bond electrons.

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