ketone

See also: Ketone

English

Etymology

From German Keton, from Aketon (“acetone”), from French acétone (“acetone”). See acetone.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkiːtəʊn/

Noun

ketone (plural ketones)

(organic chemistry) A homologous series of organic molecules whose functional group is an oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom—by a double bond—in a carbon-hydrogen based molecule.
- acetone R₁ = R₂ = CH₃
- methyl ethyl ketone R₁ = CH₃, R₂ = C₂H₅
- camphor C₁₀H₁₇O

Derived terms

Translations

organic chemicals with the >CO functional group

Bulgarian: кетон m (keton)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 酮 (tung⁴)

Mandarin: 酮 (zh) (tóng)
Danish: keton (da) c
Esperanto: ketono
Finnish: ketoni (fi)
French: cétone (fr) f
German: Keton (de) n
Greek: κετόνη (el) (ketóni)
Hungarian: keton
Ido: ketono (io)
Italian: chetone (it) m
Japanese: ケトン (keton)
Khmer: សេតូន (seetoun)
Korean: 케톤 (keton)
Malay: keton
Maori: hāparo
Persian: کتون‎ (fa) (keton)
Polish: keton m
Portuguese: cetona (pt) f
Russian: кето́н (ru) m (ketón)
Slovak: ketón (sk)
Spanish: cetona f, quetona f
Swedish: keton (sv) c
Vietnamese: xeton

See also

References

ketone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “ketone”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

Keeton

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