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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrolyze.

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  • In reality, however, what protects the inside of a stomach from its own acid and pepsin, an enzyme that hydrolyzes proteins, is the coating of mucus that lines the inside wall of the stomach.

    Archive 2006-09-01 AYDIN 2006

  • The aluminum sulfide thus formed readily hydrolyzes to form aluminum hydroxide and hydrogen sulfide.

    High school chemistry put to task Mika 2005

  • The aluminum sulfide thus formed readily hydrolyzes to form aluminum hydroxide and hydrogen sulfide.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Mika 2005

  • (Compared with boiling, for instance, popping is so rapid that it takes little fuel and it denatures or hydrolyzes the proteins and vitamins only slightly.)

    10. Sorghum: Specialty Types 1996

  • It adds vitamins, neutralizes most of the tannins, hydrolyzes the starch to more digestible forms, and increases the availability of minerals and vitamins.

    9. Sorghum: Commercial Types 1996

  • Of course, one could use - propiolactone, which easily hydrolyzes to a non-toxic chemical (4), but perhaps a more realistic approach would be to alternate lactic fermentations with some that are more prone to contamination.

    Chapter 29 1979

  • When water is added the two compounds react together, forming aluminium carbonate, which hydrolyzes into aluminium hydroxide and carbonic acid.

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

  • Similarly a soluble sulphide, instead of precipitating aluminium sulphide (Al_ S_ ), precipitates aluminium hydroxide; for hydrogen sulphide is such a weak acid that the aluminium sulphide at first formed hydrolyzes at once, forming aluminium hydroxide and hydrogen sulphide:

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

  • This is due to the fact that the salt hydrolyzes in solution into sodium hydroxide and disodium phosphate, as represented in the equation

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

  • This is due to the fact that chromic sulphide, like aluminium sulphide, hydrolyzes in the presence of water, forming chromic hydroxide and hydrosulphuric acid.

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

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