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Ethyl alcohol reacts at a faster rate with \( \mathrm{HI} \) than with \( \mathrm{HCl} \) in forming the corresponding ethyl halides under identical conditions mainly because -
(A) \( \mathrm{HI} \), being a stronger acid, protonates ethyl alcohol at oxygen much better and helps substitution
(B) the bond length in \( \mathrm{HI} \) is much shorter than that in \( \mathrm{HCl} \)
(C) \( \mathrm{I}^{-} \)is a much better leaving group
(D) \( \mathrm{I}^{-} \)is a much better nucleophile than \( \mathrm{Cl}^{-} \)
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