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Benzaldehyde and acetone can be best distinguished using

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Fehling's solution
Sodium hydroxide solution
2,4-DNP
Tollen's reagent

Solution :Benzaldehyde is a WEAK reducing AGENT. It reduces ammoniacal silver nitrate solution to give silver mirror.
`C_(6)H_(5)CHO + Ag_(2)O rarr 2Ag darr + C_(6)H_(5)COOH`
ACETONE is not easily oxidised & hence, does not give the Tollen's test.


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