Definitions for ketone

ketone ke·tone

Spelling: [kee-tohn]
IPA: /ˈki toʊn/

Ketone is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in ketone (eeknot).

Definitions for ketone

noun

  1. any of a class of organic compounds containing a carbonyl group, CO, attached to two alkyl groups, as CH 3 COCH 3 or CH 3 COC 2 H 5 .

adjective

  1. containing the ketone group.

Origin of ketone

1850-55; German Keton, aphetic alteration of Aceton acetone

Examples for ketone

Ionone, a ketone first prepared by Tiemann, and having when diluted a pronounced violet odour.

If the groups R and R′ are identical, the ketone is called a simple ketone, if unlike, a mixed ketone.

Even the common linseed contains a glucoside which breaks up into sugar, prussic acid, and a ketone.

Besides methyl salicylate, the oil contains triaconitane, an aldehyde or ketone, and an alcohol.

The hexoses all contain five alcoholic groups and one primary aldehyde, or one secondary aldehyde (ketone), group.

The ketone group corresponds to a thermal effect of 53.52 calories.

Word Value for ketone
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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