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mercaptans

n. (plural of mercaptan English)

Usage examples of "mercaptans".

On the monitor a chart appeared, giving the results from the analysis: bile pigments, stercobilin, urobilin, indole, nitrates, skatole, mercaptans, hydrogen sulfide.

The ability to taste quinine in a concentration of i part in 2,000,000 shrinks in comparison with the ability to smell mercaptans (the type of substance produced by skunks when those animals are seized with a fit of petulance) in concentrations of i part in 30,000,000,000.