Xylene vs. Acetone: Know the Difference

A volatile aromatic hydrocarbon used as a solvent.

A fast-evaporating, flammable organic compound.

A component of many industrial products.

A solvent used in pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.

A substance with solvent properties in printing.

A chemical with applications in chemical peeling in dermatology.

A chemical compound found in petroleum.

A cleaning agent for removing oils and residues.

A chemical used in the rubber industry.

A key ingredient in manufacturing plastics and synthetic fibers.

Any of three colorless flammable isomeric benzene derivatives, C8H10, obtained from wood and coal tar.

A colorless, volatile, extremely flammable liquid ketone, C3H6O, widely used as an organic solvent. It is one of the ketone bodies that accumulate in the blood and urine when fat is being metabolized.

A mixture of xylene isomers used as a solvent in making lacquers and rubber cement and as an aviation fuel.

(organic compound) A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH₃)₂CO, used as a solvent.

(chemistry) Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, found in coal and wood tar.

A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, - obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids, C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol.

The simplest ketone; a highly inflammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics

A colorless flammable volatile liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent