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Definition: Acetone |
AcetoneNoun1. The simplest ketone; a highly inflammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Acetone \Ac"e*tone\, noun. [See Acetic.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Archeological | A colorless, highly flammable liquid that is soluble in water. Commonly used as a solvent for adhesives. (references) |
Chemistry | Colourless volatile liquid; sweetish odour; miscible with water, alcohol, ether, chloroform and most oils. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A colorless liquid used as a solvent and an antiseptic. It is one of the ketone bodies produced during ketoacidosis. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Acetone is a colourless mobile flammable liquid with a pleasant, somewhat fruity odor, melting at -95.4 °C and boiling at 56.53 °C. It has a specific gravity of 0.819 (at 0 °C). It is readily soluble in water, ethanol, ether, etc., and itself serves as an important solvent. The most familiar household use of acetone is as the active ingredient in nail-polish remover. Acetone is also used to make plastic, fibers, drugs, and other chemicals.
As a member of the ketone bodies it is present in very small quantity in normal urine and in the blood. Larger quantities can be found after starvation and in diabetic patients with severe insulin deficiency (that is untreated or inadequately treated persons); a fruity smell of the breath caused by acetone is one symptom of diabetic ketoacidosis. See ketone bodies for more information.
Acetone occurs naturally in plants, trees, volcanic gases, forest fires, and as a product of the breakdown of body fat. It is present in vehicle exhaust, tobacco smoke, and landfill sites. Industrial processes contribute more acetone to the environment than natural processes. It is found among the products formed in destructive distillation of wood, sugar, cellulose, etc., and for this reason it is always present in crude wood spirit, from which the greater portion of it may be recovered by fractional distillation.
It forms a hydrazone with phenyl hydrazine and an oxime with hydroxylamine. Reduction by sodium amalgam converts it into isopropyl alcohol; oxidation by chromic acid gives carbon dioxide and acetic acid. It reacts with ammonia to form di- and triacetoneamines. It also unites directly with hydrocyanic acid to form the nitrile of α-oxyisobutyric acid.
By the action of various reagents, such as lime, caustic potash, hydrochloric acid, etc., acetone is converted into condensation products, mesityl oxide C6H10O, phorone C9H14O, etc., being formed. On distillation with sulphuric acid (H2SO4), it is converted into mesitylene C9H12 (symmetrical trimethyl benzene). Acetone has also been used in the artificial production of indigo. In the presence of iodine and an alkali it gives iodoform.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Acetone."
Synonyms: AcetoneSynonyms: dimethyl ketone (n), propanone (n). (additional references) |
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Economic History | Pakistan | Local production of chemicals largely is confined to soda ash, caustic soda, sulfuric and hydrochloric acid, sodium bicarbonate, liquid chlorine, aluminum sulfate, carbon black, acetone and acetic acid. (references) |
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| "Acetone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Acetone" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
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Expression using "acetone": acetone body. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "acetone": acetone-cleaned. | |
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| Language | Translations for "acetone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | aseton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ацетон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 丙酮. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | acetone (dimethyl ketone, dimethylketone, propanone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aceton (dimethyl ketone, dimethylketone, propanone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | acetono. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | asetoni (dimethylketone, propanone), propanoni (dimethylketone, propanone), dimetyyliketoni (dimethylketone, propanone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | acétone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Aceton (dimethylketone, propanone), Azeton (dimethyl ketone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακετόνη (dimethyl ketone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אצטון. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | aceton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | aseton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | acetone (dimethyl ketone, dimethylketone, propanone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アセテート繊維 (acetate fiber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アセトン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 아세톤. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | asseytoan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acetoneay acetona (dimethylketone, propanone). (various references) acetonã. (various references) ацетон ацетоновый. (various references) acetona (dimethyl ketone, dimethylketone, propanone). (various references) aceton (dimethylketone, propanone). (various references) ацетон. (various references) axeton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "acetone": acetones. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "acetone": dihydroxyacetone. (additional references) | |
Words containing "acetone": dihydroxyacetones. (additional references) | |
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"Acetone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Accaron, aceone, acetane, acetoin, aceton, Acteon, acutronic, Akmeyon, Aretine, Caetani, Cajetan, catone, cetane, Ectona, Kaketani, Paccione. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "acetone" (pronounced a"sutō'n) |
| 4 | -u t ō' n | baritone, monotone. |
| 3 | -t ō' n | bloodstone, Bluestone, brownstone, capstone, cherrystone, cobblestone, cornerstone, curbstone, Eyestone, Firestone, flagstone, Freestone, gallstone, gemstone, Gladstone, Goldstone, gravestone, greenstone, grindstone, hailstone, halftone, headstone, keystone, limestone, lodestone, milestone, millstone, moonstone, overtone, rhinestone, sandstone, steppingstone, tombstone, touchstone, undertone, whetstone. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: cenote, cetane, coatee, octane, tenace. | |
-2 letters: atone, canoe, canto, cento, conte, cotan, eaten, enact, enate, oaten, ocean, octan. | |
-3 letters: acne, aeon, ante, cane, cant, cate, cent, cete, coat, cone, cote, etna, neat, nota, note, once, tace, taco, teen, toea, tone. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, ane, ant, ate, can, cat, cee, con, cot, eat, eon, eta, nae, nee, net, not, oat, oca, one, tae, tan, tao, tea, tee, ten, toe, ton. | |
-5 letters: ae, an, at, en, et, na, ne, no, oe, on, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: acetones, anecdote, carotene, conepate, notecase. | |
+2 letters: anecdotes, carotenes, coenacted, coeternal, conepates, contactee, notecases, tolerance. | |
+3 letters: adolescent, ancestored, anecdotage, antecessor, auctioneer, benefactor, cajolement, coalescent, coattended, coelentera, coetaneous, colemanite, commentate, compensate, condensate, congregate, consecrate, contactees, contravene, covenanted, covenantee, covenanter, defecation, endothecia, execration, interocean, lanceolate, melanocyte, nematocide, noticeable, opalescent, recreation, solacement, tolerances. | |
+4 letters: actinometer, adolescents, affectioned, anecdotages, antecessors, arborescent, archenteron, areocentric, atherogenic, auctioneers, baronetcies, benefaction, benefactors, cajolements, catercorner, ceanothuses, celebration, cementation, centerboard, cerebration, codefendant, cogenerator, colemanites, coleopteran, collectanea, commentated, commentates, compensated, compensates, concatenate, concealment, concentrate, conceptacle, condensates, confederate, congealment, congregated, congregates, connectable, consecrated, consecrates, considerate, constellate, consternate, contemplate, contestable, contravened, contravener, contravenes, contredanse, copartnered, cotoneaster, countenance, counterbade, counterpane, counterplea, covenantees, covenanters, crenelation, decarbonate, deceptional, defecations, delectation, deprecation, desecration, enucleation, exceptional, execrations, exorbitance, expectation, expectorant, gametogenic, geomagnetic, intolerance, melanocytes, nematocides, neuroactive, noncreative, nonreactive, pentazocine, plecopteran, recontacted, recreations, reeducation, reinoculate, solacements, teratogenic, undecorated. | |
+5 letters: acceleration, accouchement, accouterment, accoutrement, acetonitrile, actinometers, actinomycete, adolescently, aeromagnetic, affectionate, androgenetic, announcement, antielectron, antiviolence, appendectomy, apperception, archegoniate, archenterons, benefactions, celebrations, cementations, centerboards, cerebrations, cladogenetic, codefendants, coelenterate, cogeneration, cogenerators, coleopterans, comanagement, commensurate, commentaries, committeeman, communicatee, compensative, complemental, concatenated, concatenates, concealments, concelebrant, concelebrate, concentrated, concentrates, conceptacles, confederated, confederates, conferential, congealments, conglomerate, consecrative, conservative, conservatize, constellated, constellates, consternated, consternates, containerise, containerize, contemplated, contemplates, contraveners, contredanses, convalescent, cotoneasters, countenanced, countenancer, countenances, counteracted, counteragent, counterargue, counterimage, counterpanes, counterpleas, counterstate, countertrade, crenelations, crenellation, cyanogenetic, cytomembrane, decarbonated, decarbonates, deceleration, dechlorinate, decompensate, decongestant, deconsecrate, deescalation, delectations, deprecations, depreciation, desecrations, deuteranopic, diabetogenic, documentable, educationese, effectuation, enantiomeric, encroachment, endotracheal, enterococcal, enucleations, evisceration, exacerbation, exercitation, exorbitances, expectations, expectorants, fianchettoed, geometrician, geotechnical, inchoateness, inoperculate, inspectorate, intercompare, interoceanic, intolerances, lectionaries, malcontented, mononucleate, neorealistic, nomenclature, nonaesthetic, nonmetameric, nonnucleated, nucleotidase, oblanceolate, opalescently, outplacement, overreacting, overreaction, oxyacetylene, paedogenetic, pathogenetic, pectinaceous, pentazocines, perceptional, percutaneous, pinealectomy, plecopterans, poeticalness, precautioned, precentorial, protuberance, reconsecrate, recreational, recuperation, redecorating, redecoration, rededication, reeducations, reescalation, reflectional, reinoculated, reinoculates, remonstrance, retinotectal, secretionary, technobabble, theoretician, uncorrelated, uncovenanted, unnoticeable. | |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)A c e t o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0065 0074 006F 006E 0065 |
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