The ketone of propionic acid, obtained as a colorless fragrant liquid.
Defn: The ketone ofpropionic acid, obtained as a colorless fragrant liquid.
It is a hydroxyl derivative of propionic acid, and has both acid and alcoholic properties.
Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, an amido acid related to lactic acid, and called also amido-propionic acid.
Propionic acid is so called because it is the first or lowest member of the fatty acid series whose salts have a fatty feel.
Defn: The hypothetical radical C3H5O, regarded as the essential residue of propionic acid and certain related compounds.
Nor was there any true aggregation in leaves immersed in propionic acid of the same strength; but in this case the protoplasm was collected in irregular masses towards the bases of the lower cells of the tentacles.
Gluten was also tried in two other digestive fluids, in which hydrochloric acid was replaced by propionic [page 119] and butyric acids, and it was completely dissolved by these fluids at the ordinary temperature of a room.
On the other hand, propionic acid, which is poisonous, does not cause much mucus to be secreted, yet the surrounding fluid became slightly pink.
Propionic acid is highly poisonous to Drosera, like its ally acetic acid, but induces inflection at a much slower rate.
The number obtained, however, corresponded nearly with that of propionic acid; and I believe that this, or a mixture of acetic and butyric acids, were present in the liquid.
Propionic acid is formed at the same time as the eyes, and they are said to be the result of a propionic ferment of lactic acid.
In the judgment of the experimenter the principal source of acetic and propionic acids was probably lactates.
It has been found that lactates are the principal source of acetic and propionic acids.
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.
This propionic bacterium cannot, however, account for all the carbon dioxide produced.
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