acetic

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These included potassium sorbate, potassium metabisulfite, sodium nitrite, potassium nitrate, and acetic acid.

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One of the compounds, acetic acid, had never before been definitively observed in space ice, while the others -- ethanol, methyl formate, and acetaldehyde -- were detected in ices outside the Milky Way for the first time.

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Birch also cites an experiment in which lidocaine was used to relieve experimentally-induced pain from an injection of acetic acid in an octopus.

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A low-cost, tin-based catalyst can selectively convert carbon dioxide to three widely produced chemicals -- ethanol, acetic acid and formic acid.

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This resulted in a multi-stage cascade of enzymatic reactions that ultimately converts alcohol into acetic acid.

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