- The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a
yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the
like, are roasted till they turn brown.
- A colorless oily liquid, C4H3O.CHO, of a pleasant odor,
obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an
aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also furfural.
- A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O,
obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called
because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.
- Nail polish remover - Nail-varnish remover - Organic solvent - Solvent has expert colour quality - Solvent makes expert pitch - Varnish ingredient - A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six
of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the
distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of
citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.