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Category:Aldehydes

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An aldehyde is either a functional group consisting of a terminal carbonyl group, or a compound containing a terminal carbonyl group.

(Where -R represents the carbon chain.)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Category:Aldehydes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.