How will obtain acetylene from ethyl iodide?
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When ethyl iodide is reacted with alcoholic potash we get ethylene. This reaction is called as dehydro halogenation which is a elimination reaction. This is a process of preparing alkenes from haloalkanes.
$$CH_3-CH_2-I+alcKOH\rightarrow CH_2=CH_2+KI+H2O$$.
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