Carboxylic acids can carry out the same reactions as other acids, for example the reactions with metals and metal carbonate. Carboxylic acids are weak acids, and will react more slowly than other, ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 192, No. 1 (May (I) 1997), pp. 37-48 (12 pages) The chemical barrier to root development existing in the subsoils of acid soils is a subject of increasing interest. In order to ...

Origin-of-life researchers face a deceptively straightforward question: how did simple chemicals produce complex biochemistry? The complexity of this starts to come in when you consider the many ...