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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of butylate.
  • adjective organic chemistry Modified to contain one or more butyl groups

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Examples

  • Other known estrogenic substances include insecticides, pesticides, food preservatives like BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), chlorines used in cleaning products, meats produced with hormones, just to name a few.

    Dr. Maoshing Ni: Don't Get Breast Cancer (Again) 2010

  • Other known estrogenic substances include insecticides, pesticides, food preservatives like BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), chlorines used in cleaning products, meats produced with hormones, just to name a few.

    Dr. Maoshing Ni: Don't Get Breast Cancer (Again) 2010

  • BHA or BHT: Butylated hydroxyanisole and butylated hydroxytoluene are used mainly in moisturizers and makeup as antioxidants and preservatives and are also a hidden ingredient in some fragrances.

    Ottawa Sun 2010

  • BHA or BHT: Butylated hydroxyanisole and butylated hydroxytoluene are used mainly in moisturizers and makeup as antioxidants and preservatives and are also a hidden ingredient in some fragrances.

    Ottawa Sun 2010

  • Frozen 50~100 mg of liver, muscle and fat tissues were homogenized (Polytron, Brinkmann Instruments) in 2 ml ice-cold methanol: water (1: 1, v/v) containing 0.2 mg butylated hydroxytoluene as antioxidant.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yasushi Noguchi et al. 2010

  • The research does indeed tap into growing interest in natural food additives as replacements to synthetic antioxidants like butylhydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) to slow down the oxidative deterioration of food.

    FoodNavigator RSS 2009

  • Although most people prefer "natural" ingredients, the use of artificial flavor preservatives (with butylated hydroxyl anisole, or BHA; and butylated hydroxyltoluene, or BHT) is not necessarily a bad thing.

    TheHorse.com News 2009

  • Some of the commonly used food additives and preservatives are aluminum silicate, amino acid compounds, ammonium carbonates, sodium nitrate, propyl gallate, butylated hydrozyttoluene

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2009

  • The DPPH for non-polar compounds showed that rosmarinic acid came out on top, with higher values than butylated hydroxytoluene g tert-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), and vitamin E (R-tocopherol).

    FoodQualityNews RSS 2009

  • I definitely don't want a side helping of butylated hydroxytoluene with my meals, but I can't quite get myself excited about these food-derived preservatives, either.

    Green Options 2009

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