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Why sodium metal cannot be used for drying alcohol?

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Ethyl alcohol has one active hydrogen atom and, therefore, reacts with sodium metal to form sodium ethoxide
`2C_(2)H_(5)OH+Na to underset("Sod.ethoxide")(2C_(2)H_(5)ON a)+H_(2)`
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