acid
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It is then converted into sulfuric acid, which reacts with mined phosphate rock to produce phosphoric acid used to make phosphate fertilizers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Natural Resources Wales said the Environment Agency, its predecessor, investigated the acid tar lake in 2006 and 2008 but tests concluded it did not meet the legal definition of contaminated land.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The water emerging from the mine is trapped in a basin where ochre-colored deposits, typical of acid mine drainage, are visible.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
To explore this nutritional mismatch, researchers compared the essential amino acid composition of honeybee tissues with pollen collected from 99 UK flowering plant species representing 26 plant families.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
She stared at Dill with an acid expression.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Mice that consumed either sweetener also developed more diverse fecal microbiomes, but they had lower levels of short-chain fatty acids.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
In habitats with only a small variety of flowering plants, these bees may have difficulty obtaining the appropriate balance of essential amino acids for both themselves and their developing young.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Professor Wright added: "We predict that honeybees have evolved to create glandular secretions which are the perfect food for their larvae, providing them with the ratios of essential amino acids that maximize growth."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Peptides are short chains of amino acids that assemble to form proteins, which are the body's building blocks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
By the early 1920s, biochemists had acquired a deeper understanding of the structure of nucleic acids.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Chemistry - Introductory
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Structure and Properties of Matter - Middle School
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Chemical Reactions - Introductory
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