Each curve shows the concentration of a volatile fatty acid per gram of dry weight of soil.

The positive effect of yeast supplementation on rumen volatile fatty acid concentration increased with DMI and crude protein levels.

So the volatile fatty acid profile can provide an estimate of TSD." TSD is the investigator's shorthand for "time since death."

Volatile fatty acids include forty-one different organic compounds, of which butyric acid is one.

There is one fat besides butter which contains ' 'volatile fatty acids,'' namely, cocoa-nut oil.

The amount of volatile fatty acids will tell us if the body was over one hundred pounds.

The ground stain contained volatile fatty acids.

RPF had no effect on concentrations of ammonia nitrogen, total volatile fatty acids and total bacterial population.

As you know, I'm looking at the products of muscle and fat breakdown called volatile fatty acids.

At death, the fermentation of fat and protein yields volatile fatty acids, or VFAs, through bacterial action.

To Arpad Vass, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, for a crash course on volatile fatty acids.

I can't use chemical extractants for separation, because that would partially dissolve the volatile fatty acids from the decomposing body.

"That's why the volatile fatty acid readings were off."

Dark, greasy stains- volatilefatty acids leaching out of tissue as it liquefied-pooledaround the bodies, just as the sweat pooled and soaked my shirt.

Beneath the bodies the floor of the hearse glistened with black, greasy goo, the volatile fatty acids leaching out of the bodies as they decomposed.