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Definition of Butyric

1. Adjective. Relating to or producing butyric acid.

Definition of Butyric

1. a. Pertaining to, or derived from, butter.

Definition of Butyric

1. Adjective. (rare) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of butter ¹

2. Adjective. (organic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from butyric acid or any of the isomeric univalent radicals of formula C₃H₇CO₂- ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Butyric

1. derived from butter [adj]

Medical Definition of Butyric

1. Pertaining to, or derived from, butter. Butyric acid, C3H7.CO2H, an acid found in butter; an oily, limpid fluid, having the smell of rancid butter, and an acrid taste, with a sweetish aftertaste, like that of ether. There are two metameric butyric acids, called in distinction the normal- and iso-butyric acid. The normal butyric acid is the one common in rancid butter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Butyric

Literary usage of Butyric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"butyric acid is also found in flesh juice, and is frequently a constituent of ... The occurrence of butyric acid in sour milk U treated of by Thorpe (Chem. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"20), butyric anhydride may be prepared by the action of benzoic chloride on ... butyric anhydride is a colourless, very mobile, and highly refracting liquid ..."

3. Micro-organisms and Fermentation by Alfred Peter Carlslund Jørgensen, Alfred Jörgensen, Alexander Kenneth Miller, A. E. Lennholm (1900)
"butyric ACID BACTERIA. When milk which has stood for some time, in which lactic acid bacteria have developed, is neutralised by the addition of calcium ..."

4. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by means of microscopic and chemical methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"That butyric acid may occur in the gastric contents when butter or fats in general have ... At the same time it should not be forgotten that butyric acid, ..."

5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1856)
"Diabetic urine, which contains grape sugar, together with animal matters, likewise exhibits the butyric acid fermentation. This liquid, set aside between ..."

6. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1898)
"It bears the same relation to butyl alcohol and butyric acid that ordinary chloral bears to ... butyric chloral is a dense oily liquid of peculiar odor, ..."

7. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"butyric acid is a colourless liquid, of an extremely disagreeable odour, ... butyric acid is inflammable, and chlorine acts on it, yielding two chlorinated ..."

8. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1862)
"butyric acid is remarkable for the facility with which it effects the etherification ... If a mixture of ï parts of concentrated butyric acid, 2 of alcohol, ..."

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