METHYL ETHYL KETONE

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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

Synonyms:

butanone; methyl ethyl ketone

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("methyl ethyl ketone" 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)

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