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Water can add to acetylene to give acetaldehyde.

This process is seldom used to manufacture acetaldehyde these days due to the high efficiency of the Wacker oxidation of ethylene route.

Industrial Organic Chemistry, 3rd. Ed. K. Weissermel, H.-J. Arpe, VCH (1997)
HC≡CH
  +  
H2O
  +  
H+
         
CH3CHO
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Acetylene     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
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Acetaldehyde     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming

Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Addition: Electrophilic Protonation
Industrial Process: Organic

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