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Fusel oil   Listen
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Fusel oil, Fusel  n.  (Chem.) A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but mostly of amyl alcohol; hence, Amyl alcohol or a mixture of amyl alcohols.






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"Fusel oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... alcohol, so wooden One kills its flavor in rank fusel oil! C2-H3-HO—a rather good 'un To mix with fruity syrups in our toil To give our social meetings after dark Their necessary spark! And you, most heavenly twins, Born of one mother— Although our woe begins When, through ...
— Nonsenseorship • G. G. Putnam



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