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  • a  relating to or producing butyric acid

  • Some fatty substances, such as butyric and caproic acids which are abundant in butter, were burnt quickly and completely after they were eaten.
  • Intarvin, when eaten, is absorbed to the extent of 90% and is then broken down, but does not yield the substances derived from butyric and other acids which are contributing .
  • The papers of even more hopeless dummies Professor Madigan had permeated with butyric acid, for a smell worse than Limburger cheese.
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  • Avery Brewing's got good taste — and the science to back it up
    The first beer sample tastes like SpaghettiOs. Which is bad — but not as horrid as the one that smells like sweaty socks. Or the one that has not-so-subtle notes of baby vomit — an aroma that comes from butyric acid, which can form if bacteria infect the beer during a brew. Th...
    Oct. 9, 2013 - Denver Westword
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  • Paul Watson in FOXNews
    Rotten butter is butyric acid as orange juice is citric acid ...... beer is more acidic,Watson told The Associated Press by satellite phone from his ship. "Our tactics are designed to not hurt anybody, so we make the deck as slippery as...

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