putrescible

• Water fresh from the well is usually tasteless, even if it contains a large amount of putrescible organic matter. —  The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference
• The result was, that while the putrescible or the fermentable liquids became impregnated with the results of the putrescence or fermentation which was going on on the other side of the membrane, they neither putrefied (in the ordinary way) nor fermented; nor were any of the organisms which abounded in the fermenting or putrefying liquid generated in them. —  Discourses Biological and Geological Essays
• By means of a membrane, he separated a sterilised putrescible liquid from a putrefying one. —  Fragments of science, V. 1-2
• Fed with such air, in the great majority of cases the putrescible liquids remained perfectly sweet after boiling. —  Fragments of science, V. 1-2
• We have now to devise a means of testing the action of such spontaneously purified air upon putrescible infusions. —  Fragments of science, V. 1-2

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