Drew Pinsky

Here's the acid test for appropriateness: Pretend that someone near and dear to you is witnessing what you are writing or sending, or knows what you are thinking about sending. If, say, your partner saw this behavior, how would he or she feel? That you are asking yourself this question could mean that you shouldn't be doing it!

American Celebrity

Evan Dando

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

American Musician

Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

American Writer

D. H. Lawrence

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

English Writer

Eddie Izzard

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

British Comedian

Ken Kesey

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

American Author

Bill Griffith

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

American Cartoonist

Dan Aykroyd

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

Canadian Comedian

Cilla Black

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

British Musician

Steven Wright

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

American Comedian

When referring to acids in labs, safety protocols must be highlighted due to their corrosive nature.

Laboratory Safety

Some acids are weak and common in everyday life, like vinegar or citrus fruits.

Not Always Strong

Acids can be neutralized by bases; this reaction is often explored in chemistry classes.

Neutralization

Acid as an adjective describes a tart or sharp taste, not necessarily unpleasant.

Taste Sensation

In gardening, acid soil means it has a low pH and may affect plant growth.

Describing Soil

Adj 'acid' can also describe sharp or cutting remarks, not just literal tastes.

Figurative Use

Acids can be identified by turning litmus paper red due to their pH level.

pH Identification

The term 'acid' in chemistry classes often comes up with 'base', 'neutral', and 'pH'.

Science Vocabulary

In colloquial terms, 'acid' refers to LSD, a powerful hallucinogenic drug.

Slang Caution

Pop culture often associates 'acid' with psychedelic art and music from the 1960s and 70s.

Cultural References

 in the form of amino acids. Adequate protein intake, along with naturally occurring hormones, like insulin-like growth factor and testosterone, help shift the body into a state where tissue is repaired and grown. This vital repair process mainly occurs when we're resting, especially at night while sleeping.

What makes muscles grow?...

 But getting to your brain cells is tricky, and amino acids have to compete for limited access. A diet with a range of foods helps maintain a balanced combination of brain messengers, and keeps your mood from getting skewed in one direction or the other. Like the other organs in our bodies,

How the food you eat...

 When bacteria digest fiber, they produce short chain fatty acids that nourish the gut barrier, improve immune function, and can help prevent inflammation, which reduces the risk of cancer. And the more fiber you ingest, the more fiber-digesting bacteria colonize your gut.

 amount and the Sharks very very rarely react some of the things that the tissue samples can tell us about is that they can actually give us an idea of the location of the sharks and where they spend most of their time for example the profiles from the fatty acid analysis

Investigating the...

 of marine biodiversity. But it's not just the carbonate producers that are affected. There's many physiological processes that are influenced by the acidity of the ocean. So many reactions involving enzymes and proteins are sensitive to the acid content of the ocean.

Rob Dunbar: The threat...

 acid after amino acid using DNA as the template they're doing thin film surface chemistry to basically grow molecules in your printer not yet and then the product should come back right as it does in the natural world life is really good at this so there's a

Creating a Bio-Industrial...

 The rest is made up of concentrated chemical additives. These vary depending on the specific characteristics of the fracking site, but usually fall into three acids for clearing debris and dissolving minerals, friction-reducing compounds to create

How does fracking work?...

 Fervent proponents of this idea were referred to as the acid mafia. The biggest hole in this theory was that antiacids only provide temporary relief. We now know that some rare ulcers are indeed caused by too much hydrochloric acid.

The surprising cause of...

 could hide itself away inside a protective shell of some sorts, inside the sulfuric acid droplets. There's questions on whether even the signal is real. If the signal is real, there are questions on whether it is phosphine or

Are There Aliens on...

 like hyaluronic acid and lubricin. Synovial fluid is more or less the texture of egg yolk and its primary purpose is to cushion the bones and help them glide past each other. It also contains phagocytic cells

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