I need the help of chemfags. How can I produce Butyric acid? I'm planning to use this as a weapon. Not because of its acidic properties but more because of the smell. The god damn smell you never forget.

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Anonymous Sat Jul 10 19:27:31 2010 No.1375120 [Reply] [Original]

I need the help of chemfags.

How can I produce Butyric acid? I'm planning to use this as a weapon. Not because of its acidic properties but more because of the smell. The god damn smell you never forget.

Anonymous Sat Jul 10 19:28:31 2010 No.1375131

It is industrially prepared by the fermentation of sugar or starch, brought about by the addition of putrefying cheese, with calcium carbonate added to neutralize the acids formed in the process. The butyric fermentation of starch is aided by the direct addition of Bacillus subtilis. Salts and esters of the acid are called butanoates.

Butyric acid or fermentation butyric acid is also found as a hexyl ester (hexyl butanoate) in the oil of Heracleum giganteum (a type of hogweed) and as an octyl ester (octyl butanoate) in parsnip (Pastinaca sativa); it has also been noticed in the fluors of the flesh and in perspiration.
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straight from wikipedia, bro.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 19:30:31 2010 No.1375145 It's not really chemistry that you can do in your house. Normally, Carboxillic acid chemistry is easy shit, but this is an exception. You probably need some complex biological pathway or some shit.

>>	Josef @home !!cvJKiVKmWz2 Sat Jul 10 19:34:31 2010 No.1375171 Put butter in a jar, close lid, wait. It works, got a glass of over 6 year old butter here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 10 21:26:31 2010 No.1375856 Propanol (not iso-propanol) + oxidiser like KMnO4

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