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jeejay1 an hour ago

You are correct, title is wrong. Blame this communicator. It feels that the person that wrote the text lacks understanding of chemistry or oversimplified too much. More appropriate term for removal of water around an ion is “desolvation”.

wavemode 9 minutes ago | parent [-]

No, dehydration is the common term when it's specifically water that's being removed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehydration_reaction