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What happens when ethyl chloride is treated with aqueous KOH?

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Ethyl chloride undergoes hydrolysis to form ethyl alcohol.
`underset("Ethyl chloride")(CH_(3)CH_(2)-Cl)+KOH(aq)to underset("Ethyl alcohol")(CH_(3)CH_(2)-OH)+KCl`
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