The use of rinse acetone to remove traces of water from glassware is a very common laboratory technique. When performing qualitative tests in glass test tubes, such as Iodoform test or dinitrophenylhydrazine test, why should you avoid rinsing the glassware with acetone prior this experiment?

The use of rinse acetone to remove traces of water from glassware is a very common laboratory technique. When performing qualitative tests in glass test tubes, such as Iodoform test or dinitrophenylhydrazine test, why should you avoid rinsing the glassware with acetone prior this experiment?



Answer: It will give a false positive for some carbonyl classification tests.


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