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  • noun Plural form of acyl.

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  • The chief flaw with this little ditty, I felt aside from the lack of rhymes and the sad truth that it tells me nothing about the differences between aldehydes and ketones and the fact that it also contains a major major lie, in that, "love" is not really the proper word to describe my feelings about aldehydes, ketones, and acyls, and -- this is getting mildly humiliating, isn't it? was that it was set to the damn Bumblebeen tuna melody which had already wrecked one thing this morning.

    DUH! mariness 2005

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