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- noun Plural form of
acid .
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Examples
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Thus, if a man doubts that _some acids are compounds of oxygen_, but grants that _some compounds of oxygen are acids_, he may agree to the former proposition when you point out that it has the same meaning as the latter, differing from it only in the order of the words.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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For instance, do you realize that one cup of cooked pasta, low in fat, low in sodium and high in amino acids is just 200 calories, 40 grams of carbohydrates, and no cholesterol?
Mary Ann Esposito: Tips for World Pasta Day Mary Ann Esposito 2010
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Collections of nucleic and amino and betain acids, barely self-replicating, a light broth in salty water.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Thomas Steitz's high resolution structures of the large ribosomal subunit in functional complexes led to atomic level understanding of how formation of peptide bonds between amino acids is catalysed on the ribosome.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 - Presentation Speech 2009
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Chemical affinity between nucleotide triplets and amino acids is a prerequisite to but not an explanation for mapping between encoding nucleic acids and encoded end products.
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Chemical affinity between nucleotide triplets and amino acids is a prerequisite to but not an explanation for mapping between encoding nucleic acids and encoded end products.
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For instance, do you realize that one cup of cooked pasta, low in fat, low in sodium and high in amino acids is just 200 calories, 40 grams of carbohydrates, and no cholesterol?
Mary Ann Esposito: Tips for World Pasta Day Mary Ann Esposito 2010
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You are making a fool out of yourself by pretending that a partial mapping of codons to amino acids is a biologically relevant code.
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The assignment of codons to amino acids is not random, but provides evidence of its origin.
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Margarine with omega-3 acids is healthier and it also keeps the rotis soft.
Gujarati Series-Phulka Rotlis and Turia Shaak Cardamom 2007
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