humic
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- Rhymes: -uːmɪk
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humic
- Of or relating to humus (the natural substance, not the food).
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humic (plural humics)
- A derivative of humic acid.
- 1996, William C. Becker, Charles R. O'Melia, Optimizing Ozonation for Turbidity and Organics, page 11:
- For waters with low concentrations of aquatic humics, the coagulant dose is controlled not by the humics but by the properties of the coagulant (pH and solubility for metal coagulants).
- 2005, Irina V. Perminova, Kirk Hatfield, Norbert Hertkorn, Use of Humic Substances to Remediate Polluted Environments, page 16:
- A number of recent publications […] claim previous studies have overestimated the importance of the aromatic moieties present in humics […]
- 2020, Roger S. Wotton, The Biology of Particles in Aquatic Systems, Second Edition:
- Freshwater chemists learned that rather than manipulate large volumes of water through a complex procedure in order to extract a few milligrams of humics or fulvics, a simple adsorption column of certain resins could collect […]
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humic m or n (feminine singular humică, masculine plural humici, feminine and neuter plural humice)