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organic acid

American  
[awr-gan-ik as-id] / ɔrˈgæn ɪk ˈæs ɪd /

noun

  • organic acids
    plural
  1. Chemistry. any acid containing a carbon-hydrogen or carbon-carbon bond.


organic acid Scientific  
  1. An acid that is an organic compound, especially a carboxylic 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

They store the CO2 that they collect at night as in an organic acid.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2018

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 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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