organic acid
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organic acids
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No expensive or harmful chemicals are required in the process because the researchers use oxalic acid -- an organic acid that can be found in the plant kingdom.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2023
So they did all kinds of just really organic research and ended up settling on benzoic acid as the organic acid that was the most satisfying.
From The Verge ● Jun. 29, 2021
Some of these microbes secrete an organic acid that allows them to dissolve the glass and consume its nutrients.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 12, 2015
The oxaloacetate is converted into another organic acid, such as malate.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The natural gums, when hydrolyzed, yield large proportions of sugars, but most of them also contain a complex organic acid nucleus, by means of which they form salts with calcium, magnesium, etc.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
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