Crossword-Solution: OENANTHIC
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| Oenanthic | a. | Having, or imparting, the odor characteristic of the bouquet of wine; specifically used, formerly, to designate an acid whose ethereal salts were supposed to occasion the peculiar bouquet, or aroma, of old wine. Cf. Oenanthylic. |
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Sentences with OENANTHIC (5)
And more than this, the action of the alcohol on these acids develops those exquisitely delicate ethers--the oenanthic and other ethers--which constitute, in fact, the bouquet of the wine.
Nevertheless, worse ingredients than oenanthic acid may lurk in the delicate draught, and the Devil's Elixir may be made fragrant, and sweet, and transparent enough, as French moralists well know, for the most fastidious palate.
Etym: [oennthic + -yl.] (Chem.) Defn: A hydrocarbon radical formerly supposed to exist in oenanthic acid, now known to be identical with heptyl.
Normal propyl alcohol 40.0 Normal butyl alcohol 218.6 Amyl alcohol 83.8 Hexyl alcohol 0.6 Heptyl alcohol 1.5 Ethyl acetate 35.0 Ethyl propionate, butyrate and caproate 3.0 Oenanthic ether (about) 4.0 Aldehyde 3.0 Acetal traces Amines traces Most of the above substances, in fact probably all of them, excepting the oenanthic ether, are contained in other spirits, such as whisky and rum.
The oenanthic ether (ethyl pelargonate) is one of the main characteristics which enable us chemically to differentiate between brandy and other distilled liquors.