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Putrefactive   Listen
adjective
Putrefactive  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process.
2.
Causing, or tending to promote, putrefaction.





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"Putrefactive" Quotes from Famous Books



... of any more importance than any other small animals or plants, and their extreme minuteness and simplicity made them of little interest to the microscopist. On the other hand, their causal connection with fermentative and putrefactive processes was entirely obscured by the overshadowing weight of the chemist Liebig, who believed that fermentations and putrefactions were simply chemical processes. Liebig insisted that all albuminoid bodies were in a state of chemically ...
— The Story Of Germ Life • H. W. Conn


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