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nonacid-proof

nonacid-proof adjective: not acid-proof.

Adjective

nonacid-proof (not comparable)

  1. Not acid-proof.
    • The culture could be rendered nonacid-proof by continual growth under conditions unfavorable to the synthesis of fats.1914, T.F. Hunt, “California Station, Bulletin 241”, in Experiment Station Record: U.S. Department of Agriculture, volume 30, page 782
    • As described by him the organism so cultivated was highly pleomorphic, with branched, acid-proof and nonacid-proof stages.1916, Edwin Oakes Jordan, A Text-book of General Bacteriology, page 400

Origin of nonacid-proof

From non- + acid-proof.

Questions about nonacid-proof

What does nonacid-proof mean?
Nonacid-proof means not acid-proof.
What part of speech is nonacid-proof?
Nonacid-proof is an adjective.

Words near nonacid-proof in the dictionary

  1. nonachlorobiphenyl
  2. nonachlorobiphenyls
  3. nonachromatic
  4. nonacicular
  5. nonacid
  6. nonacid-proof
  7. nonacidemic
  8. nonacidic
  9. nonacidified
  10. nonacidifying
  11. nonacidity

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