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What does acetous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word acetous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
  2. Causing, or connected with, acetification
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The acetous acid is concentrated by frost, which does not affect the proper acid, but only the water with which it is united.
A few minutes now, and the acetous fermentation will begin, and the whole result be spoiled.
During fruit ripening, Chinese bayberry fruit became sweeter and less acetous.
It is then found that all the alcohol has been decomposed, and that an equivalent quantity of acetous acid remains instead.
After that, a second group of bacteria transforms the short carbon chain fatty acids into organic acids, mainly into acetous acid.
By the third day the acetous fermentation had begun in all of them, and in a few more days each emitted an offensive odor.

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