Definition of Putrefiers

1. putrefier [n] - See also: putrefier

Lexicographical Neighbors of Putrefiers

putons
putoranite
putour
putours
putout
putouts
putredinous
putrefacient
putrefaction
putrefactions
putrefactive
putrefactiveness
putrefiable
putrefied
putrefier
putrefiers (current term)
putrefies
putrefy
putrefying
putrescence
putrescences
putrescene
putrescenes
putrescent
putrescently
putrescible
putrescin
putrescine
putrescines
putrescins

Literary usage of Putrefiers

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

1. Workshop receipts by Robert Haldane (1883)
"Soda, potash, nitrate and chlorate of potassium, and iime, appearing specially vigorous as putrefiers at the outset of the experiment, Dr. Dougall infers ..."

2. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1874)
"Salt, saltpeter, and sugar, all substances which preserve meat when used in large quantities, act as putrefiers when added in small percentage. ..."

3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1874)
"We have now a markedly acid organic solution to deal with ; and as I have clearly proven, in my recent paper on "putrefiers and ..."

4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1873)
"When caustic lime (see putrefiers) and chloride d lime were used, the odour of their putrid mixtures at once recalled ti. ..."

5. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1880)
"Social Science Congress, Glasgow, 1874), and the numerous experiments by which it was discovered are detailed in my paper on putrefiers and Antiseptics ..."

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