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Noun: butanone  'byoo-tu,nown
  1. Colourless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid
    - methyl ethyl ketone

Derived forms: butanones

Type of: ketone

Encyclopedia: Butanone