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Explain why anhydrous aluminium chloride cannot be prepared by heating hydrated aluminium chloride?

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Hydrated aluminium chloride on heating hydrolyses to initially aluminium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid and then to aluminium oxide on heating. That's why anhydrous `AlCl_3` cannot be produced by hydrated `AlCl_3`
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