How much acetone is in nail polish remover?

If i were to freeze nail polish remover would i get acetone.?

• anti drugs laws are getting bad, and getting non polar solvents is almost impossible, but i was thinking, nail polish remover contains acetone mixed with other ingredients. but if i froze my nail polish remover and filter would that be pure acetone?

• Answer:

  If you want to separate the acetone from the other ingredients in nail polish remover you will need to do a fractional distillation. Any basic organic chemistry lab will have the necessary equipment. The low boiling point of acetone would make this a rather simple procedure to carry out. Freezing it won't work. The mixture will freeze together as a mixture and not provide any separation. As much as many scientists would like it, fractional freezing is not a viable technique. As far as using the acetone as an organic solvent, it doesn't make a very good one because of the ketone functional group. There are very few reactions that actually use it as a solvent.