organic acid
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"With an organic acid, it usually takes 10-12 hours, but this took only one."
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 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
Fruit contains organic acid, which, in a ready-made condition, is very beneficial to us; it needs only to be taken up by the stomach.
From Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes by Bernstein, Aaron David
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