It is advisable to employ the term rutic acid, as the older term is easily confounded with caproic and caprylic.
An acid discovered by Chevreul, and obtained by decomposing caprate of barium with dilute sulphuric acid, or primarily by the saponification of butter or cocoa-nut oil, when it appears combined with butyric, caproic and caprylic acids.
Butyric acid imparts to cheese its characteristic caseous odour, and the differences in its pungency or aromatic flavour depend upon the proportion of free butyric, capric, and caproic acids present.
The less soluble portion (equal to about 1/20th of the dry mass) contains capric and caprylic acid; the larger and more soluble portion, butyric and caproic acid.
Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid.
Hence, this body, like leucin or amido-caproic acid, is a representative of the fatty acid group, the chemical relationship between the two bodies being plainly apparent from their constitution.
The oil consists chiefly of geraniol, free, and combined with acetic and caproic acids, and dipentene.
Besides cineol, the oil contains d-pinene, and valeric, butyric, and caproic aldehydes.
Acetic and propionic acids reached a maximum at three months and then decreased, while butyric and caproic acids continually increased during the experimental period covered.
They produce little or no lactic acid, and small amounts of acetic, proprionic, butyric and caproic acids.
The principal sources indicated for butyric and caproic acids were fats and proteins.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caproic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
