ACETONE
\ˈasɪtˌə͡ʊn], \ˈasɪtˌəʊn], \ˈa_s_ɪ_t_ˌəʊ_n]\
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the simplest ketone; a highly inflammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics
By Princeton University
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the simplest ketone; a highly inflammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A colorless liquid used as a solvent and an antiseptic. It is one of the ketone bodies produced during ketoacidosis.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
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A limpid, colourless liquid, having a peculiarly penetrating and slightly empyreumatic odour. Its density in the liquid state, is almost the same as that of alcohol, 0.7921. Its taste is disagreeable, and analogous to that of peppermint. It is miscible in all proportions with water, alcohol, and ether. It may be prepared by distilling a mixture of two parts of crystallized acetate of lead and one part of quicklime in a salt-glaze jar (gray-beard,) the lower part of the jar being coated with fire-clay; and a bent glass tube, half an inch in diameter, adapted to the mouth by a cork, so as to form a distillatory apparatus. The jar is supported on the mouth of a small furnace, by which the lower part only is heated to redness, and the vapours are conducted into a Liebig's condenser. The product is repeatedly redistilled from quicklime, until its boiling point is constant at 132. It has been brought forward as a remedy in phthisis pulmonalis; but evidently with unfounded pretensions. It is an excitant, and may be serviceable in chronic bronchitis. The dose is ten to forty drops three times a day, diluted with water.
By Robley Dunglison
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Colorless inflammable liquid, C3H6O, or dimethyl ketone; anesthetic and anthelmintic.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn.: pyro-acetic spirit, acetylmethyl, dimethyl ketone. A colorless, mobile liquid, of pleasant odor, produced by the destructive distillation of acetates (whence the name pyro-acetic spirit), and of sugar, cellulose, and various organic compounds: CH3.CO.CH3. It has been found in small quantities in normal urine, [von Jaksch]; in larger amounts in diabetic urine. The fruitlike odor of the breath in diabetic patients is supposed to be due to a. A feeble anesthetic action has been attributed to it. Circulating in the blood, it gives rise to acetonemia.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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Dopamine Acetyltransferase
- An enzyme that catalyzes the of groups from acetyl-CoA to arylamines. They have wide specificity for aromatic amines, particularly serotonin, and can also catalyze acetyl transfer between arylamines without CoA. EC 2.3.1.5.