Question

Acetylene is treated with ammonia solution silver nitrate..then what will happen

Answer 1

a white ppt is found

Answer 2

Tollens' reagent is an alkaline solution of ammoniacal silver nitrate and is used to test for aldehydes. Silver ions in the presence of hydroxide ions come out of solution as a brown precipitate of silver(I) oxide, Ag2O(s). ... Ketones do not react with Tollens' reagent