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nonacid

  • a word derived from acid.
    acid
    noun
    a compound usually having a sour taste and capable of neutralizing alkalis and reddening blue litmus paper, containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal or an electropositive group to form a salt, or containing an atom that can accept a pair of electrons from a base. Acids are proton donors that yield hydronium ions in water solution, or electron-pair acceptors that combine with electron-pair donors or bases.

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Working against it: Following "Moonlight," expectations could burden this movie, which gorgeously unfolds in a nonlinear approach that could prove off-putting to older academy members averse to flashbacks of the nonacid variety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2018

Beets will root far deeper and wider than most people realize—in uncompacted, nonacid soils.

From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Steve Solomon

A positive or nonacid constituent of compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

Containing, or derived from, amidogen. ÷ acid, an acid in which a portion of the nonacid hydrogen has been replaced by the ~ group.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster