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Glucose gives silver mirror test with am...

Glucose gives silver mirror test with ammoniacal silver nitrate because it has

A

aldehyde group

B

ester group

C

ketone group

D

alcoholic silver nitrate

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Glucose gives mirror with ammoniacal silver nitrate because of presence of -CHO group (aldehyde group) in the structure of glucose.
`CH_(2)OH(CHOH)_(4)CHO+Ag_(2)O to underset("gluconic acid")(CH_CH_(2)OH(CHOH)_(4)COOH)+underset("silver mirror")(2Agdownarrow)`
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