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- abbreviation trichloroacetic acid
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- noun The
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traffic conference area
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Examples
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Some observations from the final weekend of the TCA summer press tour, which included presentations from a confident for good reason Fox, its ever-adventurous cable cousin FX, the once-again-rebuilding ABC, and the annual salute to the best-of-the-best known as the TCA Awards.
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Of course corks do have their problems too, such as premox and TCA, which is what gave the opening to screwcaps (Stelvin closures).
Corkfinger - Amorim, ReCORK America and cork recycling | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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On January 11th, in the midst of the TCA Winter Tour, popular entertainment publication The Hollywood Reporter posted a piece on their website originally from their magazine entitled TCA: An Anonymous Executive Trashes TV Critics'.
Adam Wright: Non-Anonymous TV Critic Trashes Anonymous Executive (and Publication) Adam Wright 2012
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For a wine to be corked (a euphemism for spoiled, rather than meaning simply closed with a piece of cork), somewhere along the way, whether in the barrels, the winery, or most likely in contact with the cork, the noxious chemical known as TCA (or 2,4,6-trichloroanisole if you want to be wonky) entered the wine.
A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008
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For a wine to be corked (a euphemism for spoiled, rather than meaning simply closed with a piece of cork), somewhere along the way, whether in the barrels, the winery, or most likely in contact with the cork, the noxious chemical known as TCA (or 2,4,6-trichloroanisole if you want to be wonky) entered the wine.
A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008
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However, many people who find a huge number of wines corked are confusing a corked bottle -- that is, a bottle that has been ruined by a compound called TCA that has contaminated its cork -- with all sorts of other flaws, or are simply confusing bad wine with flawed wine, and there's a lot of bad wine out there.
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As much as 10 percent of all wine with a cork falls victim to a mold known as TCA, which causes wine to develop a musty "soggy dog" taste.
DRINKS: GOING SCREWY 2007
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However, many people who find a huge number of wines corked are confusing a corked bottle -- that is, a bottle that has been ruined by a compound called TCA that has contaminated its cork -- with all sorts of other flaws, or are simply confusing bad wine with flawed wine, and there's a lot of bad wine out there.
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The new paper extends the list of UCYN-A's missing metabolic pathways to include, among other things, a process central to aerobic metabolism known as the TCA cycle or Krebs cycle.
innovations-report 2010
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I don't understand how TCA can be called TCA, given that there weren't electrical sources to hook up to needles 2,000 years ago, but that's what it's called in he paper.
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