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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

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 ÷ acid, an acid in which a portion of the nonacid hydrogen has been replaced by the ~ group.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

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