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No. Or, at least, it doesn't exclusively represent "aldehyde", whatever you mean by that.
An aldehyde is a compound containing the moiety -CHO. C2H4O is the empirical formula for ethanal, which is an aldehyde. However, it's also the empirical formula for vinyl alcohol, which is not. It's somewhere between difficult and impossible to say much about a compound based purely on its empirical formula.
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ProfessorNo: The formula given corresponds to an ether, specifically diethyl ether, not an aldehyde. An aldehyde must include a double bond between a carbon atom and an oxygen atom. An aldehyde with the same number of carbon atoms as the formula given would conventionally be written, using the same semi-structural formula convention as the question's formula, CH3CH2CH2CHO.
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What is the chemical formula for ethanal?
The chemical formula of ethanal (acetic aldehyde) is CH3CHO.
Does C2H5OH represents an aldehyde?
No - it represent s an alcohol (ethanol to be specific). The formula for the equivalent aldehyde, ethanal, would be c2h4oh.
What is molecular mass for aldehyde?
The molecular mass of an aldehyde depends on the specific compound. For example, the molecular mass of formaldehyde (CH2O) is 30.03 g/mol, while the molecular mass of acetaldehyde (C2H4O) is 44.05 g/mol. You can calculate the molecular mass by adding up the atomic masses of all the atoms in the compound.
What is the chemical formula of PVA?
The chemical formula of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) is (C2H4O)n, where n represents the number of repeating ethylene (C2H4O) units in the polymer chain.
What is an aldehyde oxidase?
An aldehyde oxidase is an enzyme which catalyzes the oxidation of an aldehyde to a carboxylic acid.
