Given below are two statements:
Statement (I): Alcohols are formed when alkyl chlorides are treated with aqueous potassium hydroxide by elimination reaction.
Statement (II): In alcoholic potassium hydroxide, alkyl chlorides form alkenes by abstracting the hydrogen from the 
-carbon.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
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I is wrong: Aqueous KOH gives nucleophilic substitution ( 
) converting 
(alcohol). It's not an elimination reaction.
II is right: Alcoholic KOH promotes 
-elimination (dehydrohalogenation): base abstracts the 
, forming an alkene.
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