An acid test is a qualitative chemical or metallurgical assay utilizing acid. Historically, it often involved the use of a robust acid to distinguish...
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The Acid Tests were a series of parties held by author Ken Kesey primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area during the mid-1960s, centered on the use of and...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a 1968 nonfiction book by Tom Wolfe written in the New Journalism literary style. By 1970, this style began to be referred...
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Look up acid test or acid tests in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Acid test is a qualitative chemical or metallurgical assay which uses acid, or figuratively...
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A nucleic acid test (NAT) is a technique used to detect a particular nucleic acid sequence and thus usually to detect and identify a particular species...
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Quick ratio (redirect from Acid Test Ratio)
In finance, the quick ratio, also known as the acid-test ratio, is a liquidity ratio that measures the ability of a company to use near-cash assets (or...
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Merry Pranksters (redirect from Sound City Acid Test)
chronicled their early escapades in his 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and documents a 1966 trip on Furthur from Mexico through Houston, stopping...
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Acid2 (redirect from Acid 2 test)
to function. The Acid2 tests rendering flaws in web browsers and other applications that render HTML. Named after the acid test for gold, it was developed...
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describe the background music for acid trips in underground parties in the 1960s (e.g. the Merry Pranksters' "Acid Tests") and as a catchall term for the...
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Acid3 (redirect from Acid 3 Test)
employee who also wrote the Acid2 test. Acid2 focused primarily on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), but this third Acid test also focuses on technologies used...
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Polymerase chain reaction (redirect from Nucleic Acid Amplification)
(for example, in forensic science and parentage testing); and detection of pathogens in nucleic acid tests for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. PCR...
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web browser test page Acid2 Acid3 Acid Pro, professional digital audio workstation software Acid (computer virus), a computer virus "Acid-like", the sound...
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standard method (5a-40) for testing free fatty acid in cooking oils. The DGA has produced a simplified test kit based on the 5a-40 test method. Amine value –...
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Journalism book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, some of the parties were promoted to the public as Acid Tests, and integrated the consumption of LSD...
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following year she starred in As You Like It at the Rose Theatre, The Acid Test at the Royal Court Theatre upstairs and There Is A War at the National...
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LSD (redirect from Lysergic Acid Diethylamide)
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German Lysergsäure-diethylamid), is a potent psychedelic drug that intensifies thoughts, emotions...
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Tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA, 2-COOH-THC; conjugate base tetrahydrocannabinolate) is a precursor of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), an active component...
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Acid Test is a Canadian alternative band from Toronto. The band consists of vocalist and bassist Lucy Di Santo, guitarist Steve Fall, keyboardist Atom...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In music, the folk rock and psychedelic rock popular among hippies evolved into genres such as acid rock, world beat and...
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alongside Harriet Walter and Harry Melling. She was also in the play The Acid Test by Anya Reiss at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Simon Godwin. For...
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phrase dates back to 1968 with the nonfiction book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,[citation needed] it is strongly associated with the events in Jonestown...
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Owsley Stanley (redirect from Owsley's Acid)
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Tom Wolfe's book detailing the history of Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Stanley attended the Watts Acid Test on February...
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History of LSD (redirect from History of lysergic acid diethylamide)
The psychedelic drug (or entheogen) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was first synthesized on November 16, 1938, by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in...
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Nitric acid is an inorganic compound with the formula HNO3. It is a highly corrosive mineral acid. The compound is colorless, but samples tend to acquire...
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Diagnosis of HIV/AIDS (redirect from AIDS test)
antibody or antigen test can detect HIV. The median window period for antibody/antigen testing is 18 days. Nucleic acid testing (NAT) further reduces...
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bus featured prominently in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test but, due to the chaos of the trip and editing difficulties, footage of...
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Viral load monitoring for HIV (category Medical tests)
Various viral load tests might be used. One way to classify tests is by whether it is a nucleic acid test or non-nucleic acid test. Variation in cost...
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Ken Babbs (section Acid Tests)
book Last Go Round. Babbs is best known for his participation in the Acid Tests and on the bus Furthur. Ken Babbs was born January 14, 1936, and raised...
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PH (redirect from Acid and base)
Archived from the original on 8 May 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2022. "Stomach acid test". University of California San Francisco. Retrieved 21 February 2024....
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Grateful Dead (category Acid rock music groups)
1965, at one of Ken Kesey's Acid Tests. Scholar Michael Kaler has written that the Dead's participation in the Acid Tests was crucial both to the development...
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