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Definition of Methyl ethyl ketone
1. Noun. Colorless 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.
Definition of Methyl ethyl ketone
1. Noun. (organic compounds) The industrial solvent butanone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Methyl Ethyl Ketone
Literary usage of Methyl ethyl ketone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Niosh Manual of Analytical Methods: Sampling and Analytical Methods for edited by Peter M. Eller (1994)
"... AROMATIC, 1501; HYDROCARBONS, BP 36-126 °C 1500- TOLUENE 4000; METHYL ETHYL
KETONE, ... ETHANOL, and TOLUENE in blood 8002 methyl ethyl ketone PEROXIDE, ..."
2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"when methyl-ethyl ketone is combined with hydrocyanic acid and the1 product ...
Aqueous chromic acid oxidizes it to methyl-ethyl ketone and carbon dioxide ..."
3. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"This iso-nitroso derivative of the mono-ketone (methyl ethyl ketone) is also an
... CHa—CO—C(O + H2)N—OH methyl ethyl ketone ..."
4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"methyl ethyl ketone reacts very much more slowly with calcium, ... When 1500 cc.
of methyl ethyl ketone are allowed to remain in contact with 200 grms. of ..."
5. Watts' Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical (based on Fownes' Manual). by Henry Watts, George Fownes, William Augustus Tilden (1886)
"... slightly soluble in water. The free base separates as an oil on adding an
alkali to the solution of the hydrochloride. Methyl-ethyl Ketone ..."
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