Acetone is a solvent that breaks down Styrofoam, which results in the Styrofoam dissolving in Acetone similar to how sugar does in water. Styrofoam is a polystyrene that has been pumped with air.

(via American Chemical Society) Have you ever seen a foam cup appear to melt away in acetone? Foam cups, bowls and containers are made of a lightweight but strong material – expanded polystyrene. How ...

We could watch acetone devour styrofoam all. Day. Long. Although, technically speaking, the acetone isn’t devouring anything. Styrofoam is made of up countless interconnected styrene molecules that ...

This cute little styrofoam cup is meeting its gruesome end with a brave face. Seriously though, the way acetone eats through styrofoam cups is mind-boggling, both in how fast it works, and because the ...

Have you ever wondered what else acetone can do besides remove your nail polish? Well, this video just taught us that it can melt an entire styrofoam cup in a matter of seconds. The recording was ...

The science pros at TKOR show how acetone dissolves polystyrene, turning a solid brick into liquid goo.

image: Have you ever seen a foam cup appear to melt away in acetone? Foam cups, bowls and containers are made of a lightweight but strong material -- expanded polystyrene. How then does acetone reduce ...

The science pros at TKOR melt styrofoam with acetone in this chemical test.

The scary powers of acetone, commonly found in nail polish remover, were put on full display with a YouTube video that went up on March 23 by the channel Let's Melt This. In the video, a plate filled ...

In the presence of the wet-state sulfonated cation-exchange resin (6.0 ml), a mixture of phenol (18.0 g, 0.19 mol) and acetone (1.6 g, 0.028 mol) with ethyl mercaptan as the reaction promoter was ...

As you may know, I’m into both chemistry and magic. I often make the point that chemistry can appear to be magical until an explanation makes the magic vanish and replaces it with science. A typical ...