Word: acetonicum
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Cornelius Arzberger, a Commercial Solvents Corp. researcher, cultured from Louisiana cane-field soil a new bacterial species which ferments sugar to produce industrially useful solvents. He gave it the jaw-cracking name of Clostridium saccharo butyl acetonicum liquefaciens. Then he tried to patent it, as a plant. The patent examiner threw out his claim...
Upshot: no patent on Clostridium saccharo-butyl-acetonicum-liquefaciens...
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