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Answer for the clue "Fermentation product, ___ oil ", 5 letters:
fusel

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___ oil (a source of alcohol)

Word definitions for fusel in dictionaries

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Fusel \Fu"sel\, n., Fusel oil \Fu"sel oil\ [G. fusel bad liquor.] (Chem.) A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols ...

Usage examples of fusel.

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.

If they don't, and if they don't get the fire hot enough and keep it going steady, the liquor'll come out full of fusel oil, and that stuff just turns your stomach inside out.

Fruits exhausted by water or steam are darker, contain less oil and sink at once in water, but those exhausted by alcohol still retain 1 to 2 per cent, and are but little altered in appearance, they acquire, however, a peculiar fusel oil odour.

As a finishing touch, a little fusel oil or glycerin was added to give the whiskey a 'bead'&mdash.

I'll show you that I don't fear any competition from rubber made out of fusel oil or any other old kind of oil.

Now it was very pleasant to sit in the lab with its smells of fusel oil, kerosene, sulfur, ammonia, and permeating it all, the rich, complex odors of scorched and putrid flesh.

Moreover, white liquor contains concentrations of what are called fusel oils) a by-product of the distillation of grain.

There was precious little aspirin on Tran, and a lot more fusel oils in the liquor.