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Nov 2, 2017

Completly different things

Explanation:

A carboxylic acid is any molecule with the group :

$- C O H$ $-COH$
$. ∣ ∣$ $color(white)(.)||$
$. . O$ $color(white)(..)O$

acetate is a specific anion:

$C H_{3} C O^{-}$ $CH_3CO^-$
$color(white)(......)||$
$color(white)(.......)O$

derived by the deprotonation of acetic acid, which of course is one of the simplest a carboxylic acids:

$CH_3COH$
$color(white)(......)||$
$color(white)(.......)O$

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