Difference between Acetonic and Ketone

What is the difference between Acetonic and Ketone?

Acetonic as an adjective is of, pertaining to, or producing acetone while Ketone as a noun is 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.

Acetonic

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of, pertaining to, or producing acetone

Ketone

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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.

We hope you now know whether to use Acetonic or Ketone in your sentence.

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