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4 unusual facts about ACID


Acid-citrate-dextrose

Two different solutions (Solution A and B) are defined by the United States Pharmacopeia.

Bluvertigo

Their first album was released in 1995, Acidi e basi (Acids and Bases), followed in 1997 by Metallo non metallo (Metal Nonmetal) and in 1999 by Zero: they were later called "la trilogia chimica" ("the chemical trilogy") because every title has a reference to chemistry and the initial letters (AB-MN-Z) are respectively the first, the central and the last ones of the alphabet.

Malacca General Hospital

The clinic is the referral center for specialist services and has a special lab to examine sputum samples as well as Acid-fast Bacilli (AFB) Culture Research.

Museum board

Specifically, it is a white, acid free cardboard that bends fairly easily in one direction but is fairly stiff in the other, due to the grain of the paper fibers.


2005 French riots

In other incidents, a police officer was injured while making an arrest after youths threw bottles of acid at the town hall in Pont-l'Évêque, and a junior high school in Grenoble was set on fire.

Acetylenedicarboxylic acid

The acid was first described in 1877 by Polish chemist Ernest Bandrowski.

Anacardic acids

The totarol in the bark of Podocarpus trees is synergistic with anacardic acid in its bactericidal effects.

BAG2

All the BAG proteins have an approximately 45-amino acid BAG domain near the C terminus but differ markedly in their N-terminal regions.

Bohemic acid

The name honors the Puccini opera La Bohème and many individual components of the acid carry the names of characters from La Bohème.

CCL14

It is produced as a protein precursor that is processed to generate a mature active protein containing 74 amino acids that and is 46% identical in amino acid composition to CCL3 and CCL4.

Croconic acid

Croconic acid and potassium croconate dihydrate were discovered by Leopold Gmelin in 1825, who named the compounds from Greek

CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship

Jun Kasai won the title in Sapporo, while Acid reclaimed the title in Yokohama.

David Adriaan van Dorp

In 1946, while employed by the Dutch Organon company in Oss, Van Dorp and Jozef Ferdinand Arens ('Coco') published the synthesis for vitamin A acid in the scientific journal Nature.

Etidronic acid

Etidronic acid (INN) or 1-hydroxyethane 1,1-diphosphonic acid (HEDP) is a bisphosphonate used in detergents, water treatment, cosmetics and pharmaceutical treatment.

HindIII

They have proven to be ideal modeling systems for the study of protein-nucleic acid interactions, structure-function relationships, and the mechanism of evolution.

Hip fracture

Homocysteine, a toxic 'natural' amino acid linked to the cause of heart disease,

HOI

Hypoiodous acid, a weak acid consisting of hydrogen, oxygen, and iodine atoms.

J. Heinrich Matthaei

Whilst a post-doctoral visitor in the laboratory of Marshall Warren Nirenberg at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, he discovered that a synthetic RNA polynucleotide, composed of a repeating uridylic acid residue, coded for a polypeptide chain encoding just one kind of amino acid, phenylalanine.

Janusz Krupski

Grzegorz Piotrowski (who was also responsible for the murder of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko), to have Krupski strip completely naked before the acid was dumped on him so that the mixture would burn through his skin, damage his internal organs and kill him.

Lundborg

Patrick Lundborg (born 1967), writer on pop culture and author of the book The Acid Archives

Lysergic acid 2,4-dimethylazetidide

Lysergic acid 2,4-dimethylazetidide (LA-SS-Az, LSZ) is an analog of LSD developed by the team led by David E. Nichols at Purdue University.

Lysergic acid hydroxyethylamide

D-Lysergic acid α-hydroxyethylamide (LSH, LAH), also known as D-lysergic acid methyl carbinolamide, is an alkaloid of the ergoline family, and occurs in various species in the Convolvulaceae (morning glory) family and some species of fungi.

M4 flame fuel thickening compound

M4 flame fuel thickening compound is a nonhygroscopic thickener, adi-acid aluminum soap of isooctanoic acids derived from isooctyl alcohol or isooctyl aldehyd, which are obtained from the oxidization of petroleum.

Mandelic acid

Derivatives of mandelic acid are formed as a result of metabolism of adrenaline and noradrenaline by monoamine oxidase and catechol-O-methyl transferase.

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff

It and the parallel effort by Walter Goad which led to the GenBank database of nucleic acid sequences are the twin origins of the modern databases of molecular sequences.

Mark Tinley

In 1988, he formed Britain's first acid house band The Garden Of Eden with Kiss FM DJ Steve Jackson, vocalist Angela McCluskey and fashion designer Pam Hogg.

Meconic acid

Meconic acid, also known as acidum meconicum and poppy acid, is a chemical substance found in certain plants of the Papaveraceae family (poppy) such as Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) and Papaver bracteatum.

Melamine cyanurate

Melamine and cyanuric acid form a jigsaw puzzle-like two-dimensional hydrogen bonding network because of the complementarity of the two compounds, similar to DNA base pairing.

Methyl red

Other enterics subsequently use the butylene glycol pathway to metabolize pyruvic acid to neutral end-products.

Mifamurtide

One method of synthesis (shown first) is based on N,N-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) assisted esterification of N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutaminyl-L-alanine with N-hydroxysuccinimide, followed by a condensation with 2-aminoethyl-2,3-dipalmitoylglycerylphosphoric acid in triethylamine (Et3N).

Myeloperoxidase

Azide has been used traditionally as an MPO inhibitor, but 4-aminobenzoic acid hydrazide (4-ABH) is a more specific inhibitor of MPO.

Organic semiconductor

In 1862, Henry Letheby obtained a partly conductive material by anodic oxidation of aniline in sulfuric acid.

Padmanabhan Balaram

Along with Isabella Karle, a frequent collaborator, he has also pioneered the use of alpha-amino isobutyric acid to induce and retain helicity and constrain peptide conformations.

Pamidronic acid

Pamidronic acid (INN) or pamidronate disodium (USAN), pamidronate disodium pentahydrate is a nitrogen containing bisphosphonate, used to prevent osteoporosis.

Peet Coombes

Coombes and Singapore-born bassist Eddie Chin decided to form a group called 'Acid Drops' but it was not successful.

Peter Riederer

Riederer has received 14 international awards and was sitting in the editorial and advisory boards of various peer-reviewed scientific journals including Journal of Neural Transmission, Amino Acid, New Trends in Clinical Neuropharmacology, Biogenic Amines, Functional Neurology, International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, Neurology Psychiatry and Brain Research, Neuropsychobiologie, Parkionsonism & Related Disorders.

Phosphatidate phosphatase

PPAPDC1A (PPC1A) – phosphatidic acid phosphatase type 2 domain containing 1A

Phosphomolybdic acid

Phosphomolybdic acid, also known as dodeca molybdophosphoric acid or PMA is a component of Masson's trichrome stain.

Phytol

Refsum disease, an autosomal recessive disorder that results from the accumulation of large stores of phytanic acid in tissues, frequently manifests peripheral polyneuropathy, cerebellar ataxia, retinitis pigmentosa, anosmia, and hearing loss.

Picric acid

In 1885, based on research of Hermann Sprengel, French chemist Eugène Turpin patented the use of pressed and cast picric acid in blasting charges and artillery shells.

Psychedelic drug

Classical or serotonergic psychedelics (agonists for the LSD (also known as "acid"), psilocin (the active constituent of psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known as "magic mushrooms" or "shrooms"), mescaline (the active constituent of peyote), and DMT (the active constituent of ayahuasca and potentially an endogenous psychedelic compound).

Radiobiology evidence for protons and HZE nuclei

Heavy-ion-induced effects on telomere stability have also been studied using siRNA (small interfering ribonucleic acid) knockdown for components of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) in human lymphoblasts.

Ron Hardy

The track was named "Acid Tracks", and the band was called Phuture.

Sarepta Therapeutics

Its primary products are Morpholino oligomers (PMOs), synthetic nucleic acid analogs that were conceived of by James Summerton and invented by Summerton with Dwight Weller, and are being developed under the name NeuGene Antisense.

Scissorfight

The band has a strong libertarian viewpoint and defines itself as "acid mountain rock".

Scratchwood

The area close to Scratchwood is acid grassland which has uncommon species such as dyer's greenweed and heath speedwell.

Simon Conway Morris

Whether the "it" be that of Richard Dawkins' reductionist gene-centred worldpicture, the "universal acid" of Daniel Dennett's meaningless Darwinism, or David Sloan Wilson's faith in group selection (not least to explain the role of human religions), we certainly need to acknowledge each provides insights but as total explanations of what we see around us they are, to put it politely, somewhat incomplete.

Sodium hypophosphite

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration designated sodium hypophosphite as a List I chemical under 21 CFR 1310.02 effective November 17, 2001, specifically mentioning the compound together with several other salts of hypophosphorous acid.

Stege Marsh

The site was polluted by a UC Berkeley Field Station and a Zeneca sulfuric acid manufacturing center.

Stool guaiac test

The term guaiac denotes the name of the paper surface used in the test which has a phenolic compound, alpha-guaiaconic acid, that is extracted from the wood resin of Guaiacum trees.

TAL effector

TAL (transcription activator-like) effectors (often referred to as TALEs but not to be confused with the three amino acid loop extension family of proteins) are proteins secreted by Xanthomonas bacteria via their type III secretion system when they infect various plant species.

Ustalic acid

Ustalic acid is a naturally occurring chemical compound found in the poisonous mushroom Tricholoma ustale.

Velvet Acid Christ Vs Funker Vogt: The Remix Assault

"The Remix Assault" (aka "The Remix Wars Vol. 4" and "The Remix Wars: Strike 4 - Velvet Acid Christ vs. Funker Vogt") is an aggrotech maxi by Funker Vogt and Velvet Acid Christ, released in 1999.

Vilanterol

Vilanterol (USAN), or triphenylacetic acid, is a long-acting beta-2 agonist drug, which in May 2013 was approved in combination with fluticasone furoate for sale as Breo Ellipta by GlaxoSmithKline for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).


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