Featured this week Acetone Acetone (also known as propanone, dimethyl ketone, 2-propanone, propan-2-one and β-ketopropane) is a common industrial solvent and the simplest representative of the ketone group of solvents with the molecular formula CH3COCH3. A colourless, flammable liquid at room temperature, it occurs naturally and is also chemically synthesised. Acetone is miscible with water, […]












