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What does acetone mean?

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  1. (organic chemistry) A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH3)2CO, used as a solvent.
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Therefore, it would appear that acetone cyanohydrin represents little risk to the environment under current production and use.
Due to the low amount of protein in grape flesh it was necessary to concentrate protein in extracts by acetone precipitation.
The literature cites the use of ether, chloroform, acetone and mineral oil as possible options.
Finally, the drugs are recovered by using industrial solvents, such as acetone, ether, or chloroform.
An alternate method to remove lacquer is to rub with a cloth saturated with acetone or alcohol.
Historically acetone was prepared by the destructive distillation of wood, followed by fractional distillation of the product.

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