methyl ethyl ketone
A chemist carefully pours methyl ethyl ketone from a labeled bottle into a beaker.
Noun: A colorless, flammable liquid ketone, primarily used as an industrial solvent. Its chemical formula is CH₃COCH₂CH₃. It is valued for its effectiveness in dissolving many substances.
This term is used in industrial, chemical, and manufacturing contexts to refer to a specific organic solvent. It is a technical term. * The factory uses methyl ethyl ketone to clean its machinery parts. * Safety data sheets must be consulted when handling methyl ethyl ketone.
- Abbreviation (MEK): The compound is very commonly referred to by its initials, MEK, especially in industrial settings.
- Order more MEK for the production line.
- Butanone: This is the systematic IUPAC name for the same chemical compound (methyl ethyl ketone).
- MEK: The standard abbreviation.
- Solvent: (general term) A substance that dissolves another to form a solution.
- Ketone: (general class) An organic compound characterized by a carbonyl group bonded to two carbon atoms.
This term has a single, specific chemical meaning. It does not have different meanings, idioms, or phrasal verbs associated with it, as it is a precise technical term for a chemical compound.
A chemist carefully pours methyl ethyl ketone from a labeled bottle into a beaker.
- 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