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methyl isobutyl ketone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.58 in modern English

Syllables
methyl isobutyl ke-tone
IPA
37
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
2
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The aliphatic ketone (CH₃)₂CH-CH₂-CO-CH₃, that is used as a solvent

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

MIBK (abbreviation)

Questions

What does methyl isobutyl ketone mean?
The aliphatic ketone (CH₃)₂CH-CH₂-CO-CH₃, that is used as a solvent

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