I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acetic acid
acid house
acid jazz
acid rain (= which contains pollution from factories )
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forests which have been damaged by acid rain
acid rain
acid/alkaline
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Blueberries need acid soil.
amino acid
carbolic acid
citric acid
fatty acid
folic acid
hydrochloric acid
lactic acid
nitric acid
nucleic acid
phosphoric acid
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phosphoric acid
prussic acid
sulfuric acid
sulphuric acid
tartaric acid
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
amino
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However, the author covers the other applications such as sulfur-containing compounds and amino acids in detail.
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Tryptophan is a naturally occurring amino acid .
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Proteins-made from amino acids .
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Folic acid appears to lower the blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid.
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The diet must contain a suitable range of proteins and amino acids .
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Primary structure refers to the joining of the amino acids through peptide bonds to form polypeptide chains.
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Aspartic acid has the fastest racemization rate of the stable amino acids and is the acid usually chosen for dating bone samples.
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At 4 a. m., he drinks a protein shake with four more dietary supplements and six amino acids .
citric
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Those used range from mild organic acids such as citric acid to phosphoric acid highly reactive sulphuric and hydrochloric acids.
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The fact that lemons and limes share citric acid does not mean they share much else.
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This is also known as the citric acid cycle or Krebs cycle.
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Less threatening contents named by Mr Milburn included sucrose, cocoa, butter, liquorice root and citric acid .
essential
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It's all about six essential amino acids , apparently.
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It is true that most plant foods fall short in one or more of the essential amino acids .
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Secondly, cats must have animal fats in their diets because they are incapable of manufacturing essential fatty acids without them.
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He was prescribed a course of multivitamins, essential fatty acids , and glutathione supplements.
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In contrast with our results, these studies describe a pattern of essential fatty acid deficiency, probably related to malabsorption.
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These are essential amino acids . 3.
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The essential fatty acids , or EFAs for short, are all polyunsaturated fatty acids, also known as PUFAs.
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While all essential fatty acids are polyunsaturated, not all polyunsaturated fatty acids are essential.
folic
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At the time there was little understanding of the role of folic acid in the normal working of the body.
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Doctors can easily check blood levels of B-12 and folic acid , he says.
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What's interesting is that it fell by 1990, before folic acid was popular.
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For several years, doctors have encouraged women who could have children to consume folic acid .
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But they had no low dose folic acid supplements.
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Thus, the incidence of spina bifida decreased most dramatically when folic acid was not widely purchased.
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So the public-health community wants folic acid added to cereals used in enriched grain products, such as bread and pasta.
lactic
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The treatment can decrease the time it takes the body to remove the lactic acid build-up in your muscles.
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Cultured buttes-milk is pasteurized skim milk or low-fat milk that has been soured by lactic acid producing bacteria or other similar culture.
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Once the lactic acid is dealt with, those aches and pains should not be as bad.
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They effect formation of lactic acid and flavor components.
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Taken in mid-morning, it coated the teeth and then incubated until lunchtime; the lactose fermented into lactic acid .
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One factor contributing to this malaise is the buildup of lactic acid in the muscles that can follow heavy drinking.
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I remember seeing a tooth being stripped of its enamel by soaking in lactic acid .
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But these helper molecules are normally used to process many other toxins, including lactic acid .
nitric
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Some of this increase can be attributed to the evaporation of remaining nitric acid from the condensed phase as temperatures rise.
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The nitric acid assures good electrical conductivity.
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The nitric acid solution is then mixed with an organic solvent and the uranium and plutonium are separated from the waste products.
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The men were injured in March last year when seven cubic metres of concentrated nitric acid escaped from a valve.
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The major Billingham-based production includes ammonia, nitric acid , urea and both straight nitrogen and compound fertilizers.
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Results of the autumn and spring nitric acid measurements are shown in Fig. 2, together with total column ozone data.
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Deposition of nitric acid in particular may contribute to the equation as a fertiliser as well as a pollutant perse.
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Hydrochloric acid is sometimes replaced by nitric or sulphuric acid.
polyunsaturated
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Fats are made up of units called fatty acids - saturated, mono-unsaturated along with polyunsaturated fatty acids.
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In conclusion, dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids enhance duodenal resistance to acid by potentiation of adaptive cytoprotection.
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Diets rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids enhance the phenomenon of adaptive cytoprotection and render the duodenal mucosa more resistant to acid.
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Either polyunsaturated fatty acids enhanced mucosal resistance or the oleic acid supplement weakened the defensive mechanisms.
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The essential fatty acids , or EFAs for short, are all polyunsaturated fatty acids, also known as PUFAs.
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These results also question the rationale of using n3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.
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While all essential fatty acids are polyunsaturated , not all polyunsaturated fatty acids are essential.
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The essential fatty acids therefore are cis form, polyunsaturated fatty acids.
sulphuric
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The residue is treated with sulphuric acid and boiled.
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The amount of water vapour in a battery depends on the concentration of sulphuric acid in the solution.
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Here he also made alum and sulphuric acid by the lead chamber process.
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Hydrochloric acid is sometimes replaced by nitric or sulphuric acid.
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No problem if your inquisitive Year 10 tips potassium into concentrated sulphuric acid .
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Those used range from mild organic acids such as citric acid to phosphoric acid highly reactive sulphuric and hydrochloric acids.
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Moisture in the coal would quickly become converted into dilute sulphuric acid , and attack the sides of the hold.
uric
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Birds excrete uric acid rather than urea because it is an insoluble solid.
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Dietary purine intake may provide a significant source of uric acid .
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The lower limits of normal for serum uric acid are arbitrarily defined and may vary from one lab to another.
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Abnormalities it, urinary but not intestinal excretion of uric acid may produce clinically recognizable disorders of urate metabolism.
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Essential hypertension is often associated with an augmented proximal reabsorption of sodium and uric acid .
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The entryway was a garbage dump for rotted food, and the stairways reeked of old and pungent uric acid .
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Based on these two characteristics, differential spectrophotometry has been applied to the quantitation of uric acid .
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The remaining amount of uric acid is excreted in the biliary, pancreatic, and gastrointestinal secretions through the gastrointestinal tract.
■ NOUN
concentration
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This was coupled with an increased faecal bile acid concentration and proportion of secondary faecal bile acids.
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Supplementary dietary phosphate decreased the fatty acid concentration only on the low calcium diet.
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The bile acid concentration in faecal water also decreased with increasing dietary calcium, and this was not influenced by dietary phosphate.
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An extensive nutritional screen was performed, including measurements of blood mineral, vitamin, and fatty acid concentrations .
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Total bile acid concentration was calculated as the sum of all gas liquid chromatography detected individual bile acids.
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A reduced short chain fatty acid concentration has also been reported in pouch contents from patients with pouchitis compared with those without.
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In contrast to fatty acids , the total bile acid concentration was hardly influenced by the different diets.
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The oleic acid concentrations used are in the range encountered in patients with steatorrhea.
house
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The heavy thump of acid house music was everywhere.
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Some acid house parties can be heard miles away across the countryside: the inhabitants of normally quiet villages deserve protection.
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None the less, there are some aspects to the present acid house craze which distinguish it from its predecessors and which need attention.
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We know who's been organising acid house parties for the past year.
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Joey Meeson watched as Lizzy danced, her body undulating to the thumping rhythm of the acid house music.
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I found the acid house thing really disillusioning.
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Police arrested 11 men with sound equipment on their way to a Saturday night acid house party in the New Forest.
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An acid house party attended by children as young as 12 was broken up by police yesterday.
rain
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Prevailing westerly winds spread acid rain across the country, however.
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Ever tighter regulations are being introduced to protect the environment from emissions contributing to the greenhouse effect or acid rain .
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It is largely our need for electricity and transport and our demand for consumer goods that ultimately leads to acid rain .
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This must surely mean that acid rain was natural and the acidification of lochs had nothing to do with power stations.
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Hydrocarbons also contribute both to acid rain and to ozone formation.
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The illustration shows the devastating effect on the marble produced by structural movement and the ingress of acid rain .
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Here were the seeds of the twentieth century problem of acid rain and other crises besides.
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The acid rain was splashing around my feet, rapidly dissolving my boots.
reflux
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Oesophageal strictures are probably caused by a combination of chemical oesophagitis, ulceration, and acid reflux .
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Simultaneous food and acid reflux occurred for only 0.95+5.2/-1.2% of the time.
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Oesophageal contractions not associated with acid reflux have been reported.
secretion
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However, acid secretion in old subjects without atrophy was not different to that in young subjects, irrespective of H pylori status.
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In man and other species, there is accumulating evidence that gastrin stimulates acid secretion by releasing histamine.
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There are no studies on the acute effect of alcohol intake on gastric acid secretion in chronic alcoholic patients.
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Children who are malnourished with chronic diarrhoea have defective gastric acid secretion .
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The belief that acid secretion declines with advancing age has been widespread.
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Our findings may also have clinical implications concerning longterm treatment of acid related disorders with potent inhibitors of acid secretion .
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H pylori has variable effects on serum gastrin concentrations and gastric acid secretion .
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The gastric mucosa resists the corrosive effects of peptic hydrochloric acid secretion and noxious extrinsic agents.
test
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Ibrox, therefore, could be an acid test for Robertson, Levein and a few others.
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The acid test , of course, was to sit through Driving Miss Daisy without shedding a tear.
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The acid test was when I told him why I never had any money to spend, but he was very understanding.
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The critical question, the acid test of socialism, is the distribution of power at the point of production.
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The acid test of a good leader is the extent to which they select a style to suit the circumstances.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drop acid
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There were the heavy rooms for dropping acid or taking mushrooms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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sulfuric acid
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A chronometer is hidden within all words, and in each length of nucleic acid .
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But amygdalin reacts with an enzyme in the almond to produce glucose and two very characteristic compounds, benzaldehyde and prussic acid .
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Inject a minimum of 10 gallons of sulfuric acid .
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One factor contributing to this malaise is the buildup of lactic acid in the muscles that can follow heavy drinking.
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Saturated hydrocarbons can burn to aldehydes, alcohols to organic acids, and aromatics to unsaturated compounds which are pungent and irritating.
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Some of these complexes form immensely complicated sequences of nucleic acids which begin to replicate themselves.
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There was no significant difference between the linoleic acid and the eicosapentaenoic acid supplemented groups.
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We subsequently determined the soluble faecal concentrations of calcium, phosphate, fatty acids, and bile acids.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
rain
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They were keen to combat acid rain , freeze carbon dioxide emissions and improve public transport.
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Smog and acid rain , water pollution and sewage disposal, dams and river-flows will become ever more contentious issues.
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Carbonates destroyed by the acid rain release vast quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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For the pupils it's a graphic introduction to how acid rain starts out.
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By the time he and his colleagues had completed the 1979 follow-up study, acid rain was much in the news.
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Sulphur goes on to produce acid rain .
test
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For my own small study, the acid test was one of relevance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because of acid rain, this Scandinavian lake is now too acid to support fish.
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In general, ferns like organically enriched, moist but well-draining soil on the acid side.
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Smog and acid rain, water pollution and sewage disposal, dams and river-flows will become ever more contentious issues.
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Sulphur goes on to produce acid rain.