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Definition of Ketones
1. ketone [n] - See also: ketone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ketones
Literary usage of Ketones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Chemistry from Earliest Times to the Present Day Being Also an by Ernst von Meyer (1906)
"The work done upon the ketones, compounds so closely allied to the aldehydes,
... Important points in the further history of the ketones were (1) the ..."
2. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1911)
"In accordance with a general reaction, aldehydes and methyl-ketones may be ...
The Algerian oil contains about 90% of these ketones, but in this case there ..."
3. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"Dl-ketones The di-ketones are similar to the ketone acids in being classified
according to the relative position of the two carbonyl groups. ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"ketones, or Acetones, a class of bodies composed of an acid radical united with
... Nearly all the ketones now known consist of the radical of a fatty acid ..."
5. Catalysis in Organic Chemistryby Paul Sabatier by Paul Sabatier (1922)
"The yields of symmetrical ketones are very high, not only for acetic, ...
Formation of ketones in Liquid Medium. In the case of monobasic acids which boil ..."
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