amyl acetate
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of amyl acetate
First recorded in 1865–70
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Humans are more sensitive than dogs to amyl acetate, the main odorant in bananas, for instance, presumably because identifying ripe fruit was more important to our own ancestors and irrelevant to those of dogs.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2017
Purified air blows from two of the openings; the third assails them with a mix of air and amyl acetate, an odorous chemical that smells like bananas.
From Time Magazine Archive
They cannot be separated from one another, as they all dissolve equally in ether-alcohol, acetic ether, acetic acid, methyl-alcohol, acetone, amyl acetate, &c.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford
The best is one which I use, made of pyroxylin, the soluble cotton of commerce, dissolved in amyl acetate and acetone with some other substances that make it perfectly sterile.
From The War Terror by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
One variety consists chiefly of nitro-cellulose, with amyl acetate as solvent.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford
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