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Example sentences for "peculiar acid"

  • A peculiar acid, existing as cholate of sodium, and associated with choleic acid in the bile.

  • A peculiar acid compound, first noticed by M.

  • Before introducing the lead, a peculiar acid liquor is put into the box, which differs in different works.

  • KINIC ACID; a peculiar acid extracted by Vauquelin from cinchona.

  • This was considered, for some time, as a peculiar acid, and was accordingly called pyrolignous acid.

  • Scheele demonstrated that it is a compound of lime and a peculiar acid, to which he gave the name of fluoric acid.

  • In 1780 Scheele published his experiments on milk, and showed that sour milk contains a peculiar acid, to which the name of lactic acid has been given.

  • Scheele, with his usual skill and perseverance, succeeded in proving that it was a compound of lime and a peculiar acid, to which the name of tungstic acid was given.

  • He likewise determined its characters, and showed that it was entitled to rank as a peculiar acid.

  • It gradually combines with the oxygen of the atmosphere, in the same way as sulphur and phosphorus, and, like those substances, it is converted into a peculiar acid, which flies off in a gaseous form.

  • The great source of this alkali is the sea, where, combined with a peculiar acid, it forms the salt with which the waters of the ocean are so strongly impregnated.

  • In this case a new order of attraction takes place, from which a peculiar acid is formed, called the sebacic acid.

  • It consists of the mineral alkali and a peculiar acid, which may be separated, and exhibited in white flakes, by putting acid of vitriol to a solution of it in water.

  • A peculiar acid is obtained from most vegetable substances, especially the farinaceous ones, and from sugar, by distillation with the nitrous acid.

  • Every kind of wood, when distilled, or burned, yields a peculiar acid; and it is the vapour of this acid that is so offensive to the eyes in the smoke of wood.


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