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ACETONE
A colourless, flammableliquid which is used as a solvent (it is most familiar as the solvent in nailpolish remover). The simplest ketone, it mixes with water, ethyl alcohol, and most oils.
It melts at -95.4 deg C. And boils at 56.2 deg C. It is naturally found in very tiny quantities in the body fluids and tissues of healthy people and in somewhat larger amounts in people suffering from diabetes or starvation.