30 Words to use with acids

But it is formed, as you all know, in the earth, not as a metal, but as a stone, as chalk or limestone, which is a carbonate of lime; that is, calcium combined with oxygen and carbonic-acid gases.

There was a peculiar smell about the wire, and I know enough of chemistry to make a simple acid test!

The pulp of the fruit is white, tender, and of an agreeable acid taste, and contains from eighteen to twenty-four kernels, arranged in five rows.

Titration methods: acid-base, precipitation, and complex-formation reactions.

A few tablespoonfuls of carbolic acid solution to one pint may be added to this mixture to help deaden the pain.

[Coll.]; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem]; phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed [Coll.].

If the precipitate by the pure acid dissolve in an alkaline lixivium entirely, and with a colour, they may be considered as resino- mucilaginous particles, in which the tingeing property of the body must be looked for, which, in its natural state, subsists in an alkalino-saponaceous compound.

The citron is not suitable for eating in its raw state, though its juice is used in connection with water and sugar to form an excellent acid drink.

Presently, in her misery, she remembered a packet of acid-drops that lay in her pocket, and drew them forth in a sticky mass, which parted from its paper with regret.

"If the amount of alcohol be increased, or the repetition become frequent, some part of it undergoes acid fermentation in the stomach, and acid eructations or vomitings occur.

This is due to the fact that lactose undergoes the lactic acid fermentation.

Souls are made sweet not by taking the acid fluids out, but by putting something ina great love, a new spirit, the spirit of Christ.

Tinware is acted upon by acids, and when used for holding or cooking any acid foods, like sour milk, sour fruits, tomatoes, etc., harmful substances are liable to be formed, varying in quantity and harmfulness with the nature of the acid contained in the food.

It is only necessary to heat the nitric acid on the sugar; the sugar dissolves, and there is a violent effervescence, which must be moderated by immersion in cold water: when the mixture cools, crystals of oxalic acid form in abundance, which may be purified by a second crystallization.

Acid fruits are best stewed before putting into a pie: the usual proportions are half a pound of sugar to a quart of fruitnot quite so much if the fruit is ripe; the fruit should be laid high in the middle of the dish, to make the pie a good shape.

If you have never seen an acid combine with a base you cannot instructively speak to me of salts; and this, of course, is true in a more emphatic degree with reference to more complex matters.

He, in a word, was the subtle acid holding in chemical combination many mutually repellent substances.

Experiment has, in fact, demonstrated that carbonic acid increases in the air of inhabited rooms in the same way as do those organic matters which are difficult of direct estimation.

A great part of the acid juice is converted into sugar as the fruit ripens, and even after it is gathered, by natural process, termed maturation; but, when apples decay, the sugar is changed into a bitter principle, and the mucilage becomes mouldy and offensive.

The fruit is in general very grateful both to the palate and stomach: like other fruits of the dulco-acid kind, they abate heat, quench thirst, loosen the belly, and promote urine. 344.

Soak the bone in the acid mixture for a few days.

Also a sharp pyroligneous-acid pungency in the air that stings one's eyes.

ALKALIES, bodies which, combining with acids form salts, are soluble in water, and properly four in number, viz., potash, soda, lithia, and ammonia. ALKALINE EARTHS, earths not soluble in water, viz., lime, magnesia, strontia, and baryta.

Yet chemistry has shown, that, except in special localities, carburetted hydrogen occurs only as a slight trace, the existence of which in most cases is rather inferred than actually demonstrated, and that it has no important office to perform,while nitric acid shares with ammonia in the grand function of the nourishment of plants.

Thus our acid soils have two remarkable and opposite qualities,both proceeding from the same cause; they can neither be enriched by manure, nor impoverished by cultivation, to any great extent.

30 Words to use with  acids