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Desribe difference between ketones and aldehydes

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Both are characterized by the “carbonyl” group: a carbon atom double-bonded to an oxygen atom. This leaves two other bonds ‘available’, one of which is always a hydrocarbon (of any sort, indeterminate length or structure).

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