Butyrines

Compounds formed by the mutual action of glycerine and butyric acids. See GLYCERIDES. Tributyrine is one of the components of butter. Buxtorf, JOHANN, 1564-1629. German Hebraist, prof. at Basel 1591. His Hebrew Lexicon, 1607, and other works, were enlarged by his son JOHANN, 1599-1664. Buys-Ballot, CHRIS TOPH HE IN RICH DIED RICH, 1817-1890. Prof. Utrecht 1847-87; director Meteorological Institute of the Netherlands; inventor of the Aeroklinoscope, the first apparatus used to announce by signals the expected wind.