Definition of acid

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Acid (a.) Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered..

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Strength :: Strength (n.) Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids..
Humic :: Humic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, vegetable mold; as, humic acid. See Humin..
Stearoptene :: Stearone (n.) The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate..
Acidness :: Acidness (n.) Acidity; sourness.
Papyrine :: Papyrine (n.) Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid..
Succinamic :: Succinamate (n.) A salt of succinamic acid.
Semiacid :: Semiacid (a.) Slightly acid; subacid.
Saccharonate :: Saccharonate (n.) A salt of saccharonic acid.
Margarone :: Margarone (n.) The ketone of margaric acid.
Valeric :: Valeric (a.) Valerianic; specifically, designating any one of three metameric acids, of which the typical one (called also inactive valeric acid), C4H9CO2H, is obtained from valerian root and other sources, as a corrosive, mobile, oily liquid, having a strong acid taste, and an odor of old cheese..
Tartronyl :: Tartronyl (n.) A hypothetical radical constituting the characteristic residue of tartronic acid and certain of its derivatives.
Ethylene :: Ethylene (n.) A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated compound and combines directly with chlorine and bromine to form oily liquids (Dutch liquid), -- hence called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen..
Placidly :: Placidly (adv.) In a placid manner.
Oenanthate :: Oenanthate (n.) A salt of the supposed /nanthic acid.
Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc..
Propionate :: Propionate (n.) A salt of propionic acid.
Hypochlorite :: Hypochlorite (n.) A salt of hypochlorous acid; as, a calcium hypochloride..
Diacid :: Diacid (a.) Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid..
Sulphate :: Sulpharsenite (n.) A salt of sulpharsenious acid.
Serine :: Serine (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance obtained by the action of dilute sulphuric acid on silk gelatin.
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