Acetone

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  • noun. A colorless, volatile, extremely flammable liquid ketone, C3H6O, widely used as an organic solvent.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A limpid mobile liquid, (CH3)2CO, with an agreeable odor and burning taste, produced by the destructive distillation of acetates.
  • noun. The general name of a class of compounds which may be regarded as consisting of two alcoholic radicals united by the group CO, or as aldehydes in which hydrogen of the group COH has been replaced by an alcoholic radical.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH3)2CO, used as a solvent.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the simplest ketone; a highly inflammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics
    • Word Usage
    "The name acetone peroxide usually alludes to the cyclic trimer form called TCAP or tri-cyclic acetone peroxide."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dissolvent  dissolver  dissolving agent  ketone  resolvent  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    acetate  alcohol  ammonia  benzene  bisulphide  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    2  dimethyl ketone  one  propan  propanone  
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