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The boiling points of aldehydes and ketones lie in between alkanes and alcohols of comparable masses because :

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Alkanes are polar
Aldehydes and KETONES are non-polar
alkanes are nonpolar and aldehydes and KETONE contain polar gtC=O group and lower alcohols have H-bonding.
Alkanes are held TOGETHER by weak Vander Waals forces (being non - polar) , aldehydes and ketones contain polar. gtC=O group and held together by STRONG dipole-dipole attraction and lower alcohol have H-bonding, which is stronger than dipole dipole attraction.

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