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acetophenone

[ uh-see-toh-fuh-nohn, as-i-toh- ]

noun

Chemistry.
  1. a colorless liquid, C 8 H 8 O, having a sweet odor: used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of perfume.


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Origin of acetophenone1

First recorded in 1870–75; aceto- + phen(o)- + -one
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That liquid was mostly water, with the rest being acetophenone, a non-hazardous commercial chemical.

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The concentration of the acetophenone was “equivalent to one grain of sand in one million grains,†park officials said.

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What’s more, when researchers dissected the brains of the offspring, they found more neurons or brain cells that detect the acetophenone than in the brains of control mice.

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The molecule with the most attraction, acetophenone, which increases in people and mice with dengue or Zika, was then applied to the hands of human volunteers.

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The researchers are now looking for treatments that target acetophenone.

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