Like many other solvents, acetone may depress the central nervous system at high vapor concentrations. To do so, a vapor vapealive of acetone is co-condensed with magnesium as a catalyst onto a really cold floor. Acetone is also present as an excipient in some pharmaceutical medication. When above acetone's flash level of −20 °C (−4 °F), air mixtures of 2.5-12.8% acetone (by volume) could explode or trigger a flash fir

In 1833, French chemists Antoine Bussy and Michel Chevreul decided to call acetone by adding the suffix -one to the stem of the corresponding acid (viz, acetic acid) just as a similarly prepared product of what was then confused with margaric acid was named margarone. Acetone is an efficient solvent for a lot of plastics and some artificial fibers. It serves as a solvent in family merchandise such as nail polish remover and vaperather paint thinne

Bussy, vapeleave Antoine (1833) "De quelques Produits nouveaux obtenus par l'motion des Alcalis sur les Corps gras à une haute température" (On some new products obtained by the motion of alkalies on fatty substances at a excessive temperature), Annales de Chimie et de Physique, vapealive 2nd series, 53 : 398-412

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