BUTANONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does butanone mean? 

• BUTANONE (noun)
  The noun BUTANONE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BUTANONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTANONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

butanone; methyl ethyl ketone

Hypernyms ("butanone" is a kind of...):

ketone (any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals)

 Context examples 

Synthetic agents containing the phenyl-1-butanone group, most Butyrophenones are neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drugs, such as haloperidol, droperidol, or azaperone, that control schizophrenic symptoms (hallucinations, delusions, dementia).

(Butyrophenone, NCI Thesaurus)