fusel oil
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fusel oil
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Partial calque of German Fuselöl, from Fusel, referring to low-quality alcoholic beverages in general, especially to inferior wines and spirits distilled with inadequate equipment.
noun fusel oils
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A mixture of several higher-order alcohols (having more than two carbon atoms) formed as byproduct in the normal fermentation process, captured as part of the tailings in distillation. An excessive concentration, as in low-quality moonshine, causes unpleasant taste.
As for drinking, I am something of a chemist and I have yet to find a liquor that is free from traces of a number of poisons, some of them deadly, such as fusel oil, acetic acid, ethylacetate, acetaldehyde and furfurol.
Similar: fusel, fusel alcohol, fuselol, potato oil
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noun byproduct of alcoholic fermentation
| Español | aceite de fusel |
|---|---|
| Français | fusel |
| Deutsch | Fuselöl |
| Русский | сиву́шное ма́сло sivúšnoje máslo |
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