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MHT CET · Chemistry · Aldehydes and Ketones

Identify the test from following so that aldehyde when boiled with ammoniacal silver nitrate solution deposts silver.

  1. A Schiff's test
  2. B Tollen's test
  3. C Gehling test
  4. D Iodoform test
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(B) Tollen's test

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Tollen's reagent oxidises aldehyde to the corresponding carboxylate anion. Silver gets precipitated as greyish black precipitate.