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Suppose that you take a bottle of benzaldehyde (a liquid, bp 179°C) from a shelf and fin...

Suppose that you take a bottle of benzaldehyde (a liquid, bp 179°C) from a shelf and find a white solid in the bottom of the bottle. The solid turns litmus red; that is, it is acidic. Yet aldehydes are neutral compounds. How can you explain these observations?

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