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Definition of Acetifies
1. acetify [v] - See also: acetify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acetifies
Literary usage of Acetifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... to assist in clarifying the liquor by attracting the lees, which settle upon
them, and leave the liquor clear, in which state it acetifies more rapidly. ..."
2. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody; an Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase, William Wesley Cook (1920)
"The holes bored for that purpose, in warm weather, oxidizes or acetifies the
vinegar- fluid, by affording the two essential points of quickly making good ..."
3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1911)
"Rosin grease rapidly acetifies by heat and friction, and hence is not adapted
for the lubrication of brass bearings. ..."
4. Lubrication and Lubricants: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of by Leonard Archbutt, Richard Mountford Deeley (1907)
"They are not suitable for brass bearings, on account of the rapidity with which
the grease acetifies under the influence of heat and friction.2 The ..."
5. The Health Exhibition Literature (1884)
"... which, coming in contact with the multiplied surfaces of the liquor trickling
through the twigs, speedily acetifies it; the whole being kept up to the ..."
6. Food: Its Adulterations, and the Methods for Their Detection by Arthur Hill Hassall (1876)
"... of atmospheric »ir, which, coming in contact with the multiplied surfaces of
the liquor trickling through the twigs, speedily acetifies it; the wh. ..."
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