nonacid-proof

English

Etymology

non- +‎ acid-proof

Adjective

nonacid-proof (not comparable)

  1. Not acid-proof.
    • 1914, T.F. Hunt, “California Station, Bulletin 241”, in Experiment Station Record: U.S. Department of Agriculture, volume 30, page 782:
      The culture could be rendered nonacid-proof by continual growth under conditions unfavorable to the synthesis of fats.
    • 1916, Edwin Oakes Jordan, A Text-book of General Bacteriology, page 400:
      As described by him the organism so cultivated was highly pleomorphic, with branched, acid-proof and nonacid-proof stages.
    • 2016, A. Tkachenko, M. Bilan, H. Glebenyuk, Y. Sokol, L. Gordiyenko, “Elucidation of the biological activity and the" purity" of the culture dissociative forms of m. Bovis”, in News of Dnipropetrovsk State Agrarian and Economic University: Veterinary Sciences, number 2:
      At 37 °C established nonacid-proof grainy long sticks (10–15 microns), nonacid-proof and acid-proof single grains. Mycobacteriа of original culture – nonacid-proof short sticks and grains and only single nonacid-proof long sticks.
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