amyl acetate
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of amyl acetate
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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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
The ethers are returned as ethyl acetate, but from fractional distillation amyl acetate was found to be present.
From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.
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 Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
One variety consists chiefly of nitro-cellulose, with amyl acetate as solvent.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
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