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Write the mechanism of acid catalysed dehydration of ethanol to ethene.

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Step 1: Formation of Protonated of alcohol

Step 2: Formation of corbocation by loss of water to form carbocation

Step 3: Elimanation of proton from carbocation to form alkene
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