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Word: butanol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some microbes have done double jobs. One, fed in a certain way, yields oxalic acid, basic chemical of the blueprint industry; on a different diet it produces the gluconic acid used in medicines. The versatile Clostridium acetobutylicum, on a single diet of corn mash, produces acetone for solvents, butanol for automobile lacquers, and riboflavin (Vitamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Industrial Microbes | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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