Acetone Introduction

Acetone, aswell sometimes accepted as 2-propanone or dimethyl ketone (DMK), is broadly acclimated as a actinic average in the assembly of added chemicals.

Acetone, as bogus by Shell chemicals companies, is acquired from the basal raw abstracts of benzene and propylene. These abstracts are aboriginal acclimated to aftermath cumene, which is again oxidised to become cumene hydroperoxide, afore getting breach into phenol and its co-product, acetone.

Acetone is a colourless, low boiling, simple cloudburst aqueous with a appropriate odour. It is miscible in all accommodation with water, alcohols, abounding hydrocarbons and added amoebic liquids. It has acceptable bread-and-butter backdrop for vegetable and beastly fats, cellulose, accustomed and constructed resins and abounding added amoebic substances.