English Name: propanone / acetone
Other names: dimethyl ketone, dimethyl ketone, dimethanone, acetone, xylone
Chemical formula: CH3COCH3
CAS accession number: 67-64-1
EINECS accession number: 200-662-2
Appearance: colorless liquid at room temperature
Melting point: − 94.9 ° C (178.2 K)
Boiling point: 56.53 ° C (329.4 K)
Water solubility: miscible
Safety Description: flammable, easy to produce poison
Application: acetone is an important raw material for organic synthesis, which is used to produce epoxy resin, polycarbonate, plexiglass, medicine, pesticide, etc. It is also a good solvent for coatings, binders, cylinder acetylene, etc. It is also used as diluent, cleaning agent and extractant. It is also an important raw material for manufacturing acetic anhydride, diacetone alcohol, chloroform, iodoform, epoxy resin, polyisoprene rubber, methyl methacrylate, etc. It is used as solvent in smokeless powder, celluloid, acetate fiber and spray paint industry. It is used as extraction agent in oil and other industries.
It is used to prepare organic chemical raw materials such as polymethyl glass monomer, bisphenol A, diacetone alcohol, hexanediol, methyl isobutyl ketone, methyl isobutyl methanol, forone, isophorone, chloroform, iodoform and other important organic chemical raw materials. It is used as an excellent solvent in coating, acetate fiber spinning process, acetylene storage in cylinder, dewaxing in oil refining industry.
