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(B) Ammoniacal silver nitrate is known as Tollens' reagent. It acts as a mild oxidizing agent and specifically oxidizes aldehydes to their correspondi

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Ethanal

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(B) Ammoniacal silver nitrate is known as Tollens' reagent. It acts as a mild oxidizing agent and specifically oxidizes aldehydes to their corresponding carboxylate anions. During this process,the $Ag^+$ ions in the reagent are reduced to metallic silver,which forms a silver mirror or a greyish-black precipitate. Among the given options,$Ethanal$ $(CH_3CHO)$ is an aldehyde,while the others are an alcohol,an ether,and a carboxylic acid,respectively. Therefore,only $Ethanal$ reacts with Tollens' reagent to form a silver precipitate.

Which of the following on reaction with ammoniacal silver nitrate forms a silver precipitate?

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