The result, though more mild than the original preparation, has enough acid to cut through the fatty butter.

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He is using enzymes such as polymerases, nucleases and exonucleases that can also copy, cut and destroy nucleic-acid strands.

ECONOMIST: DNA computing

Mr Swinney noted, with only a mild degree of festive acid, that the extra money reduced the overall real-terms cut in Scotland's capital allocation from 33% to 26%.

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America has cut in half its sulphur emissions (the key component of acid rain, the global warming of its day) over the past ten years by imposing mandatory caps with tradable allocations.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

It means the amount of trans fat in those menu items will be cut by some 95%, a major reduction in an unsaturated fatty acid that has been implicated in heart disease and clogged veins.

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Autism risk might be cut nearly in half by making sure that mothers are taking supplements containing folic acid, a B vitamin, at the time of conception and in the early months of pregnancy.

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Since no dinosaur fossils have ever been found in sediments dating from after this point, conventional wisdom has it that the largest creatures ever to roam the earth must have been cut down in their prime - victims of an asteroid impact that sparked firestorms, acid rain and a nuclear winter that blotted out the sun.

BBC: Closing the 'three metre gap'

The problem remains, though, that while the technology is able to cut carbon dioxide emissions, it may still increase another one: nitrogen oxide, tied to smog and acid rain.

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