Dehydration of alcohol always take place in basic medium reason
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Because the elements of water are removed, this reaction is called a dehydration. Dehydrations are most commonly carried out by warming the alcohol in the presence of a strong dehydrating acid, such as concentrated sulfuric acid. Most alcohol dehydrations take place by the mechanism shown below.
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Alcohol is slightly acidic in nature when they react with base due to nutrelisation reaction it give water and salt and in dehydration water comes out .
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