ethyl butyrate

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a colorless, volatile, nontoxic liquid having the odor of pineapple, C 6 H 12 O 2 , used chiefly in flavoring extracts, and in the manufacture of perfumes and sprays.

Example Sentences

Most individuals ranked the smell of vanilla as most pleasant, followed by the scent of ethyl butyrate, a fruity odorant found in ripe bananas and nectarines, and then linalool, common in floral scents.

From Science Magazine

Among the subsidiary products recovered are ethyl propionate and ethyl butyrate, which are now being obtained on a scale never before approached.

From Nature

Ethyl butyrate, C3H7�CO2C2H5, boils at 121� C. and has an odour of pineapple.

From Project Gutenberg

The three most abundant scent chemicals were: 1-hexen-3-one in flower and nectar samples, 3-hexanone in flower samples and ethyl butyrate in male flowers.

From BBC

Ordinary alcohol, which we shall frequently refer to by its specific name, ethyl alcohol, seldom occurs in the vegetable kingdom; the unripe seeds of Heracleum giganteum and H. Sphondylium contain it mixed with ethyl butyrate.

From Project Gutenberg