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Definition of Acetones
1. acetone [n] - See also: acetone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acetones
Literary usage of Acetones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon; Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1910)
"It is the best known representative of a class of compounds which are sometimes
called acetones, but more commonly ketones. ..."
2. Principles of Chemistry, Founded on Modern Theories by Alfred Naquet, Thomas Stevenson, William Cortis (1868)
"... acetones may also be obtained by causing zinc-ethyl or zinc -methyl to act on the
... it will be found that the acids give the acetones Cm'O4 . ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1858)
"... if further followed out, and which would modify the views entertained as to
the constitution of the fat acids, their analogues, aldehydes, acetones, &c. ..."
4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1862)
"... na with them crystallizable compounds which correspond se formed with the
other aldehyde. (b) The Ketones, or acetones. ..."
5. Principles of Theoretical Chemistry, with Special Reference to the by Ira Remsen (1883)
"acetones or Ketones.—The ketones are obtained by distilling mixtures of two acids.
If the constitution of the acid is known, that of the ketone obtained in ..."
6. Wöhler's Outlines of Organic Chemistry by Friedrich Wöhler, Ira Remsen, Rudolph Fittig (1873)
"275) with an alcoholic solution of potassium sulphite. The free acid is a heavy,
violet, very unstable oil. acetones. ..."
7. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1863)
"acetones or KETONES. This term is applied to a class of compounds which, ...
Nearly all the acetones at present known consist of the radicle of a fatty acid ..."
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