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FUSEL OIL (from the Ger. Fusel, bad spirits) , the name applied to the volatile oily liquids, of a nauseous fiery taste and smell, which are obtained in the rectification of spirituous liquors made by the fermentation of grain , potatoes, the mare of grapes, andother material, and which, as they are of higher boiling point than ethyl alcohol, occur in largest quantity in the last portions of the distillate. Besides ethyl or ordinary alcohol, and amyl alcohol, which are present in them all, there have been found in fusel oil several other bodies of the C,H2}1.OH series , also certain ethers
series of fatty acids. Normal propyl alcohol is contained in the fusel oil of the mare brandy of the south
chief
grain , usually known as fusel oil and potato
Ordinary fusel oil yields also an isomeric amyl alcohol (active amyl alcohol) boiling at about 128. Variable quantities of fusel oil, less or greater according to the stage of ripening, exist in commercial spirits (see SPIRITS).Fusel oil and its chief
weight
consumption
consumption
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