Q.

Methanal, Ethanol, Propanal are the examples of aldehydes only.

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a

True

b

False

answer is B.

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Detailed Solution

Aldehyde is a class of organic compounds which contains -CHO as the functional group. The suffix which is used in the IUPAC naming of aldehyde compounds is "-al". So in the given statement, we can see that it is Methanal and Propanal, which contains "-al" suffix. So they are the examples of aldehydes. Whereas, Ethanol has the suffix "-ol" which is an alcohol functional group. So the given statement is false.

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