Acetone residuals?!?

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Failing for acetone - An explanation

Some of you might have experienced failure for acetone or other residual solvents. Sometimes these results just do not make sense. For example, we had laboratories report 5000 ppm acetone (0.5%!!) in terpenes blends made with food grade terpenes. This seemed very unlikely. Recently our group published a paper that shows that terpenes can degrade into acetone in the analytical equipment under certain conditions. An additional interesting finding was that the presence of cannabinoids can prevent…