The greater intoxicating power of whiskey, more especially that from raw grain, than other spirit, is due to the larger quantity of fusel oil which it contains.
The oil of potato spirit is the purest form of crude fusel oil.
The vinic alcohol being the most volatile comes over first, the heavier fusel oil remaining until the later stages.
By rectifying the faints at a very gentle heat, most of the alcohol and water first pass over together with only a little fusel oil, whilst the latter forms the residuum in the still.
The ordinary corn oil or fusel oil of raw spirit is generally, for the most part, intercepted by a self-regulating bath arranged between the still-head and the refrigeratory.
The brandy may be roughly tested for fusel oil by burning a little of it in a dish, and depressing over the flame a saucer or other cold piece of porcelain.
Fusel oil gives a whiskey-gin flavour; and in conjunction with creasote or crude pyroligneous acid, a full whiskey flavour.
A water-clear, colourless Schnapps, which contains much fusel oil and has had some of the spirit removed, distilled from gentian plant.
Fusel oil is slightly soluble in water, to which it imparts its odor; and soluble in all proportions in alcohol, ether, volatile and fixed oils, and acetic acid.
It passes over towards the termination of the distillation process in a white turbid fluid, which consists of a watery and alcoholic solution of the fusel oil.
Fusel oil is a colorless oily fluid, which possesses at first not an unagreeable odor, but at last is very disgusting, producing oppression at the chest and exciting cough.
The English spirit, on the other hand, owes its odor to fusel oil.
By oxidation with bichromate of potash and sulphuric acid, fusel oil yields valerianic acid, which is used in medicine, and apple-oil, employed as a flavoring ingredient in confectionery.
Defn: In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil.
This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil.
Well say, I didn't know whether I'd get word that night that Swifty had jumped off the bridge, or had gone back to the fusel oil.
The Apawattuck's a place where they deal out imitation shore dinners to trolley excursionists, and fusel oil high balls to the bubble trade.
This stuff contained 90% of pure alcohol and sometimes over 4% of fusel oil.
The expert can immediately detect the peculiarly virulent characters of the mixed intoxication due to the consumption of spirits containing a large percentage of fusel oil.
Impure beverages induce all the graver neurotic and visceral disorders in alcoholism; and, like fusel oil, furfurol and the essence of absinthe, are convulsent poisons.
Fusel oil and its chief constituent, amyl alcohol, are direct nerve poisons.
The chief constituent of the fusel oil procured in the manufacture of alcohol from potatoes and grain, usually known as fusel oil and potato-spirit, is isoprimary amyl alcohol, or isobutylcarbinol.
Normal propyl alcohol is contained in the fusel oil of the marc brandy of the south of France, and isoprimary butyl alcohol in that of beet-root molasses.
Ordinary fusel oil yields also an isomeric amyl alcohol (active amyl alcohol) boiling at about 128 deg.
Richet considers that the fusel oil contained in spirits constitutes the chief danger in the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Pure ethyl alcohol intoxication, indeed, is rarely seen, being modified in the case of spirits by the higher alcohols contained in fusel oil.
According to Mr. Rowney, the fusel oil of the Scotch distilleries contains capric acid.
The name given by Mulder to a peculiar fatty compound found in thefusel oil of the distilleries of Holland.
It is prepared by dissolving the fusel oil of marc-brandy in strong rectified spirit, and then adding concentrated sulphuric acid; alcohol and excess of acid is removed by washing the newly formed compound with water.
The affinity of the hydrated oxide of amyl (fusel oil) for acetic acid is so great, that they readily unite without the intervention of a mineral acid.
It may be separated from fusel oil by shaking with strong brine solution, separating the oily layer from the brine layer and distilling it, the portion boiling between 125 deg.
The most important is isobutyl carbinol, this being the chief constituent of fermentation amyl alcohol, and consequently a constituent of fusel (q.
If the brandy is sharp to the throat on swallowing it, be sure that it is not pure, but contains capsicum, horseradish, or fusel oil.
In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil.
It is a liquid, smelling like fuseloil and boiling at 108.
It may be prepared by the general methods, and occurs in fusel oil, especially in potato spirit.
For instance, alcohol which contains disagreeably smelling fusel oil, on being mixed with charcoal or filtered through it, loses most of the fusel oil.
Subsequently Böttger[2] proved that potassium iodide is not decomposed by pure amyl alcohol, and that the decomposition is due to the presence of acids contained in fusel oil.
Hager[7] detects fuseloil as follows: If the spirit contains more than 60 per cent.
By this process the author has determined one part of fusel oil in ten thousand of alcohol.
Depré[3] determines fusel oil by oxidizing a definite quantity of the alcohol in a closed vessel with potassium bichromate and sulphuric acid.
To detect very minute quantities of fusel oil, the chloroform extracts are treated with several drops of sulphuric acid and enough potassium permanganate to keep the solution red for twenty-four hours.
If fusel oil is present, its odor may be detected by evaporating the chloroform; or, by treatment with sulphuric acid and sodium acetate, the ether is obtained, which can be readily recognized.
Until quite recently we have had no accurate method for the determination of fusel oil in alcohol or brandy.
Marquardt,[8] like Betelli, extracts the fusel oil from alcohol by means of chloroform, and by oxidation converts it into valeric acid.
After the evaporation of the alcohol, the odor of the fusel oil can be readily detected.
In the presence of fusel oil a red color is produced within a short time, which can be detected when not more than 0.
With a weaker alcohol, or an apparatus which projects further out of the water bath, the residual fusel oil is mixed with water.
Hitherto, neither the impure fusel oil, nor the purer chemical preparation, has had any toxicological importance.
It is sparingly soluble in ether, but is dissolved by alcohol, wood-spirit, fusel oil, and glycerin.
In the production of alcohol there is always formed as a by-product a certain amount of fusel oil, which is very useful in manufacturing lacquers which are used on metallic substances, fine hardware, gas fixtures, and similar articles.
It was stated in the beginning of this chapter that the various impurities in alcohol, the ethers, the water and the fusel oils, have each their own vaporizing point and each their own condensing point.
At the same time the impurities are not returned to the first or main column to contaminate the vapors therein and add to the amount of fusel oils contained on the lower plates.
At last would come the weak spirit containing much fusel oil.
The fusel oils are extracted from the plates slightly below the center of the column and are carried to an oil concentrating apparatus H.
It is customary, however, with the improved modern apparatus, to produce at the outset spirit containing but little fusel oil and at least 80 per cent of alcohol.
The clarified phlegm passes then to the second column where the alcohol is separated from the last runnings or fusel oil.
The industries manufacturing these wares will undoubtedly receive a great stimulus as a result of cheaper fusel oil caused by the increased production of alcohol.
The production of fusel oil therefore and the character of the constituents of the fusel oil alike depend on the composition of the medium in which fermentation occurs.
Further experiments showed that glutamic acid was actually the source of the succinic acid, the relations being quite similar to those which exist for the production of fusel oil.
Fusel oil would be formed by the reduction of the aldehydes arising from the simple monobasic amino-acids, succinic acid would be produced by oxidation of the aldehyde derived from the dibasic glutamic acid.
Yeast can also form fusel oil at the expense of its own protein, but this only occurs to any considerable extent when the external [p089] supply of nitrogen is insufficient.
As in the case of fusel oil, the production does not occur in the absence of sugar, and is not effected by yeast-juice or zymin.
It is therefore possible that this mode of decomposition plays some part in the production of fusel oil, but in the case of culture yeasts it is entirely subordinated to the mode next to be discussed.
For preparation of beverages, fusel oil must be carefully separated from alcohol, as fusel oil has an injurious effect physiologically.
Hitherto the aim in fermentation and distillation had been to obtain as small a proportion of fusel as possible, for fusel oil is a mixture of the heavier alcohols, all of them more poisonous and malodorous than common alcohol.
From fusel oil by the use of chlorine isoprene can be prepared, so the chain was complete.
It need scarcely be said that alcohol of the finest quality is to be used, since, if it contains fusel oil, the attainment of a fine product is absolutely impossible.
The substances to be used for tinctures should be fresh and genuine, and the alcohol free from fusel oil, since a perfect tincture can only be obtained under these conditions.
Fifty grammes iodine and 60 grammes of mercuric chloride in a liter of alcohol freed from fusel oil, and let stand for 12 hours.
In using the salicylic acid for this purpose it is recommended to make a strong solution of it in pure spirit, perfectly free from fusel oil, and then to add of this solution as much as may be requisite.
The clean bottles must be rinsed with a solution of 1 part of salicylic acid in 4 or 5 parts of spirit (free from fusel oil), which can be poured from 1 bottle to another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fusel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
