Monday, October 18, 2010

Propanone

Acetone is another name of propanone which is a highly inflammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics.

There are different ways of preparing acetone:
1.By dehydrogenation of propane-2-ol using heated copper.
2.By dry distillation of calcium acetate.
3.By Wacker Process.

  Acetone is used as solvent in paints, varnishes and lacquers.It can remove the lustre from a textile for cellulose acetate fibres.  It is used in the preparation of smokeless gun powder and unbreakable glass and  for specification testing of vulcanised rubber products, as nail polish remover and  to clean and dry parts of precision equipment.


                                                   

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