What happens when alcohol is added with sulphuric acid
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Because sulfuric acid is also a strong oxidizing agent, it oxidizes some of the alcohol to carbon dioxide and is simultaneously reduced itself to sulfur dioxide. Both of these gases must be removed from the alkene. Sulfuric acid also reacts with the alcohol to produce a mass of carbon
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When ehanol is heated with concentrated sulphuric acid at 443 K, dehydration takes place and ethene is formed. In this reaction concentrated sulphuric acid acts as a dehydrating agent.
CH3CH2OH ----(H2SO4)----> CH2=CH2
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