| acicular |
needle-shaped; approaching subulate, but more slender, with a more delicate and pungent point; closely allied to acerose.
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| acid rain |
Air pollution produced when acid chemicals are incorporated into rain, snow, fog or mist. The "acid" in acid rain comes from sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides, products of burning coal and other fuels and from certain industrial processes. The sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides are related to two strong acids: sulfuric acid and nitric acid. When sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released from power plants and other sources, winds blow them far from their source. ...
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| acidophile |
Any organism that grows best under acidic conditions (low pH).
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| acid poisoning |
The acids, generally, are strong corrosive poisons. Symptoms: sour, acrid taste; burning in the throat, which is increased by pressure, swallowing, or coughing; eructation, and excruciating pain in the stomach; more or less corrugation of the lining membranes of the mouth and primae viae; excoriation about the mouth or such other parts of the skin as the acid may have touched. The matter vomited effervesces with carbonate of lime. ...
Ãâó: www.antiquusmorbus.com/English/Poison.htm
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| aciculum |
in polychaete annelids, a large seta usually mainly internal.
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