88 Quotes About Acid


  • Author Edward Lawrie Tatum
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    That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.

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  • Author Jill Tarter
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    Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica.

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  • Author Chris Woods
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    Acid mine drainage cleanup is a dirty, unpopular job, but someone needs to do it. The American Fork will serve as a model that will spawn similar clean up efforts in communities across the West.

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  • Author Rick Watson
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    It causes kidney failure in the vultures. The kidneys shut down so the uric acid precipitates inside and on the surface of internal body organs. It destroys the animal inside and out within 24 to 72 hours.

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  • Author Lee Kuan Yew
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    The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

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