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Given below are two statements labelled as Assertion (A) and Reason (R).

Assertion (A): At room temperature, propan-2-ol and 2-methylpropan-2-ol, when heated with acidified potassium dichromate, slowly turns the colour of orange dichromate to green. 

Reason (R): Secondary and tertiary alcohols are readily oxidised to aldehydes which gets oxidised to acids. 

Select the most appropriate answer from the options given below: 

A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A. 

B. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A. 

C. A is true but R is false. 

D. Both A and R are false.

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D. Both A and R are false.

Tertiary alcohol does not oxidise by K2Cn2Oat room temperature, and secondary alcohols oxidised to ketone not aldehydes.

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