Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being acidified, or of being converted into an acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid.
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- adjective Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is not so in the fields covered with indigo, or other herbaceous plants; where the rays of the sun penetrate freely into the earth, and by the accelerated combustion of the hydrurets of carbon and other acidifiable principles, destroy the germs of fecundity.
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It is not so in the fields covered with indigo, or other herbaceous plants; where the rays of the sun penetrate freely into the earth, and by the accelerated combustion of the hydrurets of carbon and other acidifiable principles, destroy the germs of fecundity.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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[Mrs. B.] combined with acidifiable radicals [acidificiable] [Mrs. B.] this power of charring wood [charing]
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A still greater latitude may, in many cases, be allowed to the proportions of oxygen than can be combined with acidifiable radicals; for several of these radicals are susceptible of uniting with a quantity of oxygen so small as to be insufficient to give them the properties of acids; in these cases, therefore, they are converted into oxyds.
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And, laftly, as iron holds this acidifiable bafe, or phlogiflicated acid, in folution, fo likewife it may not be feparable from this me -
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