putrescible

Now Pasteur puts together air and putrescible liquids and nothing is produced.

So long as solid wastes are withheld, its surplus oxidizing power will gradually destroy the accumulation of putrescible material.

To prove his contention he set out for Arbois with a large number of glass bulbs each half filled with a putrescible liquid.

Fed with such air, in the great majority of cases the putrescible liquids remained perfectly sweet after boiling.