See Also: Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Kumquat(recipes)
kumquat(medicine)
kumquat(dictionary)
kumquat(dictionary)
kumquat(encyclopedia)
Flambeed bananas with kumquat marmalade sauce(recipes)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy)(health)
Rambourg's chromic acid-phosphotungstic acid stain(medicine)

acid reaction (medicine) and kumquat (iou)


acid reaction (medicine)


acid reaction


Any test by which an acid reaction is recognised such as the change of blue litmus paper to red, an excess of hydrogen ions over hydroxide ions in aqueous solution indicated by a pH value less than 7 (at 22°C).

Compare: dissociation constant of water.


kumquat (iou)



kumquat noun. Also cumquat. L17.
[Chinese (Cantonese) kam kwat lit. 'gold orange'.]
A small citrus fruit, like a miniature orange, from any of several Far Eastern trees of the genus Fortunella, esp. F. japonica and F. margarita; the tree producing this, cultivated in China and Japan. L17.
More fully native kumquat. A citrus tree of NE Australia, Eremocitrus glauca; the plum-sized acid fruit of this. Austral. L19.