Triacetin is the glycerol triester of acetic acid:
Since it's made of glycerol and acetic acid, it's kinda-sorta-almost edible, and the wiki informs me there is talk of feeding it to spacemen. Aside from its toxicity, it has an great liquid range (3-260C), especially for a nonpolar solvent and it makes a decent plasticizer. Puzzlingly (since it's basically food), it's used as an antifungal.
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Prologned ascent asstronaught feeding problems have been solved. Like the NASA space toilet, it requires a certain willing suspension of disbelief. A couple of gallons of toe fungus emollient pimps the ride!
Really nice solvent to make inverse emulsion with water, used it a lot during several studies of amphiphilic block copolymers... Good biocompatiblity and anyway you can always use the good old dialysis to get rid of the stuff once you got your nanoparticles...