Acetone is a colorless and highly flammable manufactured liquid. It has a distinctive fruity or mint-like odor and a pungent taste. It is also found naturally in plants, trees, volcanic gases, and forest fires, and as a by-product of the breakdown of body fat.t is found in vehicle exhaust, tobacco smoke, and landfill sites. The chemical formula for acetone is C3H6O. Acetone is used as a solvent to dissolve other substances, such as paints, varnishes, lacquers, fats, oils, waxes, resins, printing inks, plastics, and glues.
The basic unit of matter is called? The most basic unit of chemical matter is the atom. Everything that  is liquid, solid or gas is made up of atoms. Atoms are very very  small, it single strand of human hair â¦is approximately one million  atoms wide. Kylie Reid.
The Greek model of the atom is a simple one: take anything you like, break it down in smaller and smaller amounts and then you'll arrive at the most fundamental unit of that â¦ particular stuff, whatever it is. That is the atom. This was a philosophical idea and not science as we know it, but it was amazingly accurate. We know that the smallest unit of stuff nowadays can be an atom or a molecule as regards chemical elements or chemical compounds, but the Greeks just thought this up with nothing but brain power.