(n) 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, Syn. methyl ethyl ketone
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n. [ L. butyrum butter. See Butter. ] (Chem.) An inflammable gaseous saturated hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series. [ 1913 Webster ]