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the smell of fat that gave up on life and started chemically dissolving itself.
the chemistryoxygen breaks fat into stinking acids and aldehydes
two flavorsoxidative rancidity and hydrolytic rancidity differ entirely
hidden everywherestale nuts and old oil go rancid silently
antioxidant defensevitamin E slows the fatty meltdown naturally
word rootfrom Latin rancidus, meaning stinking or rank