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BUTANONE

Dictionary entry overview: What does butanone mean?

• BUTANONE (noun)
The noun BUTANONE has 1 sense:

1. colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid

Familiarity information: BUTANONE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BUTANONE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

butanone; methyl ethyl ketone

Hypernyms ("butanone" is a kind of...):

ketone (any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals)

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