acetone
Chemical compound
Also known as propanone · dimethylketone · dimethyl ketone · ketone propane · 2-propanone · methyl ketone
- Formula
- C₃H₆O
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- C₃H₆O
- Mass
- 58.042 Da
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- 58.042 Da
- Melting point
- -140°F
- , -95°C
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Sources- 1.Stated in International Chemical Safety Card“ACETONE”Retrieved 2019-06-12
- , -94°C
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- +1 more
- Boiling point
- 133°F
- , 56°C
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Sources- 1.Stated in International Chemical Safety Card“ACETONE”Retrieved 2019-06-12
- , 56.05°C
- Density
- 0.7902 g/cm³
Overview
Chemistry
All data
273 statements · 65% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Speed of sound
- 1,203 m/s temperature: 20°C · state of matter: liquid
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- 1,203 m/s temperature: 20°C · state of matter: liquid
- Immediately dangerous to life or health
- 5,950 milligram per cubic metre
- Vapor pressure
- 180 millimetre of mercury temperature: 68°F
- Flash point
- 0°F
- Lower flammable limit
- 2.5 volume percent
- Upper flammable limit
- 12.8 volume percent
- Ionization energy
- 9.69 eV
- 9.71 eV
- Time-weighted average exposure limit
- 590 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: none · runtime: 10 h
- 2,400 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: United States · runtime: 8 h
- 500 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Australia, Belgium
- 250 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Denmark, Sweden
- 1,200 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Germany
- 1,210 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Hungary
- 200 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Japan
- 750 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: South Korea
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- 1,000 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Mexico, Philippines
- 1,780 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Netherlands
- 125 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Norway
- 600 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Poland
- 200 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Russia
- Median lethal dose (LD50)
- 44 gram per cubic metre route of administration: inhalation · runtime: 4 h · applies to taxon: laboratory mouse
- 50,100 milligram per cubic metre runtime: 8 h · route of administration: inhalation · applies to taxon: laboratory rat
- 1,297 milligram per kilogram route of administration: intraperitoneal injection · applies to taxon: laboratory mouse
- 5,500 milligram per kilogram route of administration: intravenous injection · applies to taxon: laboratory rat
- 3,000 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · applies to taxon: laboratory mouse
- 5,800 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · applies to taxon: laboratory rat
- 5,340 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · applies to taxon: rabbit
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- Minimal lethal dose
- 150,000 milligram per cubic metre route of administration: inhalation · applies to taxon: laboratory mouse
- 8,000 milligram per kilogram route of administration: intraperitoneal injection · applies to taxon: dog
- 500 milligram per kilogram route of administration: intraperitoneal injection · applies to taxon: laboratory rat
- 4,000 milligram per kilogram route of administration: intravenous injection · applies to taxon: laboratory mouse
- 1,576 milligram per kilogram route of administration: intravenous injection · applies to taxon: rabbit
- 8,000 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · applies to taxon: dog
- 714 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · applies to taxon: human
- 3,490 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · applies to taxon: mammal
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- 2,857 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · applies to taxon: human
- 5,000 milligram per kilogram route of administration: subcutaneous injection · applies to taxon: dog, guinea pig
- 1,159 milligram per kilogram applies to taxon: human
- Short-term exposure limit
- 1,000 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Australia, Belgium
- 625 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Finland
- 2,420 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Hungary
- 1,260 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Mexico
- 1 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: New Zealand
- 1,800 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Poland
- 800 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Russia
- 500 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Sweden
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- 1,500 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: United Kingdom
- Canonical SMILES
- CC(=O)C
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- CC(=O)C
- Standard enthalpy of formation
- -216.5 kilojoule per mole
- Refractive index
- 1.3588
- Found in taxon
- Homo sapiens
- Malus domestica
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- ginger
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- Coffea arabica
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- Abies concolor
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- Abies lasiocarpa
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- Picea glauca
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- Picea pungens
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- Picea engelmannii
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- Pseudotsuga menziesii
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- Pinus contorta
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- Acer saccharinum
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- Opuntia ficus-indica
- Cinnamomum sieboldii
- Micromeria myrtifolia
- Psidium guajava
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- Gossypium hirsutum
- Olea europaea
- Freesia ×hybrida
- Ageratum conyzoides
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- Nepeta racemosa
- Artemisia judaica
- Garcinia mangostana
- Thymus longicaulis
- Origanum sipyleum
- Tuber melanosporum
- Basella alba
- Mangifera indica
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- Citrus grandis
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- Citrus hystrix
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- Citrus reticulata
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- Pueraria montana var. lobata
- Angelica dahurica var. formosana
- Malus pumila
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- Cannabis sativa
- Citrus × paradisi
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- Humulus lupulus
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Sources- 1.Stated in Direct thermal desorption-gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry profiling of hop (Humulus lupulus L.) essential oils in support of varietal characterization
- 2.Stated in Rapid Differentiation of Chinese Hops Varieties (Humulus lupulus) Using Volatile Fingerprinting by HS-SPME-GC-MS Combined with Multivariate Statistical Analysis
- Carica papaya
- Picea abies
- Streptomyces caespitosus
- Thymus sibthorpii
- pomelo
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- Citrus × deliciosa
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- Escherichia coli
- Passiflora edulis
- Molar fusion enthalpy
- 5.69 kilojoule per mole temperature: -94.9°C
- Safety classification and labelling
- NFPA 704: Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response nfpa health: 1 · nfpa fire: 3 · nfpa instability: 0
- Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008 ghs hazard pictogram: GHS02: flame, GHS07: exclamation mark · ghs signal word: danger · ghs hazard statement: H225, H319
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- Part of
- acetone metabolic process subject has role: participant
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- acetone catabolic process subject has role: reactant
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- acetone biosynthetic process subject has role: product
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- acetate catabolic process to butyrate, ethanol, acetone and butanol subject has role: product
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- hexose catabolic process to acetone subject has role: product
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- acetone carboxylase activity
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- acetoacetate decarboxylase activity
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- isopropanol dehydrogenase (NADP+) activity
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- acetone metabolic process subject has role: participant
- Electric dipole moment
- 2.88 debye
- Substance control status
- Schedule IV (Russia) applies to jurisdiction: Russia
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Sources- 1.Stated in Government Decree No. 681 of 30 June 1998 (Russia)consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_19243/Retrieved 2026-08-31
- Schedule IV (Russia) applies to jurisdiction: Russia
On other databases
83 identifiers linking acetone across the web's reference databases
- A Dictionary of Public Health entry ID26
- AHECC 2017 ID29141100
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300015269
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlineacetonas
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID119847890
- BNCF Thesaurus ID31004
- Cannabis Database ID000698
- CAS Registry Number67-64-1
- CCDC Number157082
- ChEBI ID15347
- ChEMBL IDCHEMBL14253
- ChemSpider ID175
- CosIng number31573
- CSD RefcodeHIXHIF05
- DSSTOX compound identifierDTXCID101482
- DSSTox substance IDDTXSID8021482
- EC number200-662-2
- ECHA Substance Infocard ID100.000.602
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDscience/acetone
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDacetone
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2O2zpY
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)120818
- Freebase ID/m/05xndr
- Gmelin number1466
- GND ID4141244-8
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDacetona-1
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0074268
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDaceton
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDatseton-0bcf9e
- HCIS ID60
- HSDB ID41
- Human Metabolome Database IDHMDB0001659
- ICSC ID0087
- InChIInChI=1S/C3H6O/c1-3(2)4/h1-2H3
- InChIKeyCSCPPACGZOOCGX-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- J9U entity ID987007293983105171
- JECFA database ID4316
- JECFA number139
- KBpedia IDAcetone
- KEGG IDD02311
- Kemler code33
- KNApSAcK IDC00048304
- Lex IDacetone
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85000462
- LIPID MAPS IDLMFA12000057
- MassBank accession IDMSBNK-Fac_Eng_Univ_Tokyo-JP002344
- MeSH descriptor IDD000096
- MeSH tree codeD02.522.064
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)2781213060
- NALT ID2500
- National Library of Latvia ID000296755
- NDF-RT IDN0000147297
- NDL Authority ID00560382
- NL CR AUT IDph118249
- NMRShiftDB structure ID10007820
- NSC number135802
- OpenAlex IDC2781213060
- OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID476
- PDB ligand IDACN
- PDB structure ID4GY7
- PesticideInfo chemical IDPRI788
- PM20 ware ID142022
- PubChem CID180
- Quora topic IDAcetone
- Reaxys registry number635680
- Römpp online IDRD-01-00461
- RTECS numberAL3150000
- RxNorm CUI178
- ScienceDirect topic IDagricultural-and-biological-sciences/acetone
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri IDmaterias/1030609
- SPLASHsplash10-0006-9000000000-23fa1a3953b34b4d17db
- SureChEMBL ID7459124
- SwissLipids IDSLM:000501121
- UM-BBD compound IDc0556
- UMLS CUIC0001002
- UN number1090
- UniChem compound ID104299
- UNII1364PS73AF
- WikiSkripta article ID53429
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID14624684-n
- Yale LUX IDconcept/832c4bf6-eb8c-4583-893f-5092af02871b
- YSO ID18930
- ZVG number11230