Sentence examples for as a acid from inspiring English sources

We also note that histidine is unique in its ability to act both as a acid and base at physiological pHs suggesting that it may represent a similar crux for the transitions in acid-base pairs.

"That never bothered my readers in the past," Joanne snapped as sweetly as an acid drop from Howard's delicatessen.

But the venue would later prove perfect as an acid house mecca, earning it the nickname the Halluçienda.

In this case, one solvent molecule acts as an acid and another as a base.

"The Crying of Lot 49," published in 1966, is a paranoid phantasmagoric fable set in California that features a narrative as linear as an acid trip.

Bite into one of these and it will strip off layers of skin from your gob as effectively as an acid peel.

He might have began his career as an acid house promoter, but Guido Fawkes founder Paul Staines seems to have become a fully paid-up member of the establishment.

In Greece, the governing conservatives suffered a sharp setback in the elections, seen as an acid test for Kostas Karamanlis, the prime minister.

When I first saw it, at last year's Venice film festival, I filed Lanthimos's movie as an acid, perfectly dealt black comedy.

The Great Beauty, widely regarded as an acid assault on the Berlusconi era, was bankrolled in part by the old rascal's Medusa Films production house.

It can act as an acid, it can act as a base, with a pinch of salt it is the solution in which the cell's thousands of chemical reactions take place.