acetone

See also: acétone

English

Etymology

See acetic. Compare ketone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.sə.toʊn/

Noun

acetone (countable and uncountable, plural acetones)

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

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

Derived terms

• acetonaemia
• acetonemia
• acetone peroxide
• acetonic
• aminoacetone
• benzylideneacetone
• bromoacetone
• chloroacetone
• diacetone
• hexabromoacetone
• hexachloroacetone
• hexafluoroacetone
• isopropylacetone
• metacetone
• monoacetone
• phenylacetone
• succinylacetone
• thioacetone
• triacetone
• vanillylacetone

 

Translations

the organic compound (CH₃)₂CO

• Arabic: أَسِيتُون m (ʾasitūn)
• Asturian: acetona f
• Belarusian: ацэто́н m (acetón)
• Bulgarian: ацето́н 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 m
• Danish: acetone c
• Dutch: aceton (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: acetono
• Finnish: asetoni (fi)
• French: acétone (fr) f
• Galician: acetona f
• German: Aceton (de) n, Azeton (de) n, Propanon (de) n, Dimethylketon (de) n
• Greek: ασετόν (el) n (asetón)
• Hebrew: אצטון (he) m (atsetón)
• Hindi: शुक्ता (hi) ? (śuktā)
• Hungarian: aceton (hu)
• Icelandic: asetón n
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• Interlingue:
• Irish: aicéatón m
• Italian: acetone (it) m
• Japanese: アセトン (aseton)
• Korean: 아세톤 (ko) (aseton)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aceton (no) n

  Nynorsk: aceton n

• Persian: استون (fa) (asetōn)
• 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
• Ukrainian: ацето́н (uk) m (acetón)

References

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

Anagrams

• enoteca

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Danish

Etymology

From Latin acētum (“vinegar”) + -one.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /asətoːnə/, [asəˈtˢoːnə]

Noun

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

1. acetone (the organic compound (CH₃)₂CO)

Further reading

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /at͡ʃeˈtone/

Noun

acetone m (plural acetoni)

1. (organic chemistry) acetone

Anagrams

• enoteca