acetous
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“Agatha might have more sense,” returned her acetous companion.
From A Forgotten Hero Not for Him by Emily Sarah Holt
The acetous acid has no action upon tin.
Nor is it analogous to other animal facts, that nutritious fluids secreted by the finest vessels of the body should be so little animalized, as to retain acetous or vegetable acidity.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
As many of the preceding observations relate to the vinous and putrefactive fermentations, I had the curiosity to endeavour to ascertain in what manner the air would be affected by the acetous fermentation.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley
A mouse lived perfectly well in this air, thus affected with the acetous fermentation; after it had stood several days mixed with four times the quantity of fixed air.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley
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