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Definition of Acids
1. acid [n] - See also: acid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acids
Literary usage of Acids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1898)
"THE action of organic acids upon nitrils has been the subject of a number of ...
The nitrils and acids employed in the various experiments have been made to ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"The hydrochlorides of amino acids, and a number of similar bodies, are active in
promoting the peptic digestion of proteins in proportion to the ease with ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Now, on hydrolysis (by boiling with acids, or by the action of the ferments known
as proteases), these chains of amino acids can be again split up, ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"But it should be remarked in this connection that the decomposition of such a
substance by heat alone will not produce fat acids or solution of glycerine. ..."
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