Lexic.us

Definition of Butanone

1. Noun. 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.

Definition of Butanone

1. Noun. (organic compounds) A simple aliphatic ketone, CH₃CH₂COCH₃, prepared industrially as a solvent, for use in the manufacture of paints etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Butanone

1. a flammable ketone [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Butanone

Literary usage of Butanone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"A series of experiments by Schwarz1 using butanone instead of acetone as ... butanone is a good solvent for mineral oil distillates and is used in somewhat ..."

2. Eighth Annual Report on Carcinogens: 1998 Summary edited by Barry Leonard (1999)
"... (3-pyr¡dyl)-1-butanone (NNK) CAS No. 64091-91-4 First Listed in the Sixth Annual Repon on Carcinogens Carcinogenicity There is sufficient evidence for ..."

3. 6th Annual Report on Carcinogens (1991) by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"... AMINO)-1-(3-PYRIDYL)-1- butanone (NNK) CAS No. ... amino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) in experimental animals ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... to 3- phenyl-2-butanone and 4-phenyl-2-butanone were extensively explored in an earlier study.1 The base- catalyzed reaction was assigned ..."

5. Smokeless Tobacco Or Health: An International Perspective by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Crespi, CL, Penman, BW, Gelboin, HV, Gonzalez, FJ A tobacco smoke-derived nitrosamine, 4-(methylnitrosamino)-l-(3-pyridyl)-l- butanone, is activated by ..."

6. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"Hemoglobin adducts of the carcinogenic tobacco-specific nitrosamines 4-(methylnitrosamino)-l (3-pyridyl)-1-butanone and N'-nitrosonornicotine were ..."

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