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acetone
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A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH3)2CO, used as a solvent.
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Leaving aside all the other issues that swirl around narcotics, the way the cocaine base is prepared leads to the dumping in the water of millions of gallons of kerosene, sulphuric acid, acetone, solvent, and tonnes of lime and carbide.
According to court documents, over the summer he and unidentified associates purchased "unusual quantities of hydrogen peroxide and acetone products", and attempted to make the explosives in a Colorado hotel.Mr Zazi lived in New York for a decade before moving earlier this year to Denver, where he drove an airport bus.
Many people have suspected that it could also be enough, combined with the high pressure involved, to promote fusion.Dr Taleyarkhan and his colleagues picked acetone, whose molecules contain six hydrogen atoms, as the liquid.
They ran the experiment with normal acetone, as a control, and with acetone made with deuterium (a form of hydrogen that has a proton and a neutron in its nucleus, rather than the single proton of normal hydrogen).
Moreover, if Dr Naranjo is correct, 2{+5}2californium would appear to be present only in the experimental runs using deuterated acetone and not in the control experiments using normal acetone, pointing to the possibility of direct human interference.There is a certain amount of "history" between the two scientists.
Some enthusiasts have even learned to purify their own cocaine, using acetone and coffee filters.Just like the enthusiasts, the Serious Organised Crimes Agency is now trying to get rid of the cutting agents by cracking down on benzocaine imports.
They ran the experiment with normal acetone, as a control, and with acetone that had been made with deuterium, rather than ordinary hydrogen.
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The full exploitation on a commercial scale of the acetone-soluble material was accomplished by two Swiss brothers, Henri and Camille Dreyfus, who during World War I built a factory in England for the production of cellulose diacetate to be used as a nonflammable dope for the coating of fabric airplane wings.
The full exploitation on a commercial scale of the acetone-soluble material was accomplished by two Swiss brothers, Henri and Camille Dreyfus, who during World War I built a factory in England for the production of cellulose diacetate to be used as a nonflammable "dope" for coating fabric airplane wings.
These "skins" for the wings and fuselages were painted with acetone-based lacquers or dopes to tighten and toughen surfaces; thus factories had large brush or spray areas with natural or induced air circulation to enhance drying and dissipation of fumes.
Ion-exchange separations of this kind are widely used; they can be modified by using mixed solvents, like acetone water, and great selectivity is possible.
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