organic acid
Americannoun
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organic acids
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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 organic acid is stored inside vacuoles until the next day.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The basicity of an organic acid, as above defined, is determined by the number of carboxyl groups present.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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