acetone

See also: acétone

English

Etymology

From acet- from acētum (“vinegar”). The -one was taken from margarone but further etymology is unclear. Doublet of ketone.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.sə.toʊn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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Wikipedia

acetone (countable and uncountable, plural acetones)

2. (organic chemistry) A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH₃)₂CO, used as a solvent.

   Synonyms: propanone, propan-2-one, dimethyl ketone

   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 81:

     You open the salon door and the acetone from yesterday’s manicures immediately stings my nostrils.

Derived terms

• acetonaemia
• acetonemia
• acetone oil
• acetone peroxide
• acetonic
• acetonide
• acetonuria
• acetonyl
• acetylacetone
• aminoacetone
• benzylideneacetone
• bromoacetone
• chloroacetone
• diacetone
• hexabromoacetone
• hexachloroacetone
• hexafluoroacetone
• iodoacetone
• isopropylacetone
• metacetone
• monoacetone
• phenoxyacetone
• phenylacetone
• succinylacetone
• thioacetone
• triacetone
• trithioacetone
• vanillylacetone

Translations

the organic compound (CH₃)₂CO

Arabic: أَسِيتُون m (ʔasitūn) Asturian: acetona f Belarusian: ацэто́н m (acetón) Bulgarian: ацето́н (bg) m (acetón) Catalan: acetona f Chinese: Cantonese: 丙酮 (bing2 tung4), 醋酮 (cou3 tung4) Mandarin: 丙酮 (zh) (bǐngtóng), 醋酮 (cùtóng) Czech: aceton (cs) m Danish: acetone c Dutch: aceton (nl) m or n Esperanto: acetono Finnish: asetoni (fi) French: acétone (fr) f Galician: acetona (gl) f German: Aceton (de) n, Azeton (de) n, Propanon (de) n, Dimethylketon (de) n Greek: ακετόνη (el) n (aketóni) Hebrew: אצטון (he) m (atsetón) Hindi: शुक्ता (hi) ? (śuktā) Hungarian: aceton (hu) Icelandic: asetón n Indonesian: aseton (id) Irish: aicéatón m Italian: acetone (it) m Japanese: アセトン (ja) (aseton) Khmer: អាសេតូន (ʼaaseetoun) Korean: 아세톤 (ko) (aseton) Latvian: acetons m Norwegian: Bokmål: aceton (no) n Nynorsk: aceton n Persian: استون (fa) (asetôn) Polish: aceton (pl) m Portuguese: acetona (pt) f Romanian: acetonă (ro) f Russian: ацето́н (ru) m (acetón) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ацѐто̄н m Roman: acètōn (sh) m Slovene: acetón (sl) m Spanish: acetona (es) f Swedish: aceton (sv) c or n Tagalog: asetona Thai: แอซีโทน (ae-si-thon) Turkish: aseton (tr) Ukrainian: ацето́н (uk) m (acetón) Vietnamese: axeton

References

• acetone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “acetone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• enoteca

Danish

Etymology

From Latin acētum (“vinegar”) + -one.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /asətoːnə/, [asəˈtˢoːnə]

Noun

acetone c (singular definite acetonen, not used in plural form)

1. (organic chemistry) acetone (a colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH₃)₂CO, used as a solvent)

Further reading

• acetone on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• “acetone” in Den Danske Ordbog