Originally Posted by
M-Tecs
Fingernail polish remover is nothing more than acetone. Acetone is used as a medical cleaner for removing things like tar from road rash. It's also you in some medications. Yes acetone is flammable and needs to be handled like gasoline but less BTU's than gas. It is also widely used as a solvent for industry and home use.
Meth labs use lots of chemicals way nastier than acetone. Per a LE friend it's the cooking process of various nasty chemicals that creates the explosive fumes and coupled with the fact that lots of the meth labs are boobytrapped and operated by not the brightest they tend to blow up. If it was from acetone only you really think you could still purchase acetone at every cosmetics counter, drug store, grocery store and hardware store in the US?