organic acid
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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
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 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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