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 organic acid is stored inside vacuoles until the next day.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
When a sparingly soluble organic acid is precipitated from fairly concentrated solution, the precipitate is liable to carry down with it some of the salt of the organic acid.
From Organic Syntheses by Conant, James Bryant
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