When wood is subjected to destructive distillation or is greatly heated in close vessels, an acid liquor oozes over with the tar and gaseous products. This acid liquor is the pyroligneous acid.

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Through extraction with aqueous bicarbonate solution a solid (comprising 0.03 per cent of the wood) was isolated and ... its identity with piperonylic acid.

Normally, gastric acid appears to facilitate the chelation in the stomach of ferric salts with ascorbate and other exogenous or endogenous agents. Since these chelates then remain soluble in the ...

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“This is the culmination of a long period of progress in chemistry,” explains Matthew Wood, a researcher at the University of Oxford who specializes in nucleic acid therapeutics for ...

People in the northern part of Rockdale County were ordered to evacuate and others were told to shelter in place with windows ...

There are several places where you really should not use citric acid in your home, including on: wood floors, copper, brass, ...

A boy aged 16 and a 27-year-old woman were also injured after the substance was thrown at the victims outside Westminster Academy.

▲摘要：陆地光合作用每年清除的二氧化碳量是化石燃料排放的6倍。然而，通过分解后大部分的碳回到大气中。我们在地下2米处发现了一根3775年前的古原木，它的保存时间远远超过预期。这根木材保存得近乎完美，与现代样品相比，碳损失不到5%。它没有腐烂的原因可能是埋藏地点致密粘土的低渗透性。

Two teens were hospitalized with injuries after a male suspect on a scooter threw what was believed to be acid on them outside a London ...

In the BBC Radio 4 documentary Vitriolic, journalist Ayshea Buksh meets victims of acid attacks who have been scarred for life and had to undergo major surgery in their long recovery. Here she ...