What Are Acids and Bases? How Are They Used to Extract

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Essay

What are acids and bases? How are they used to extract and categorize drugs?

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Definitions:

Cyanobacteria

Photosynthetic, aquatic organisms that can produce oxygen during photosynthesis, part of the bacterial kingdom.

Methanogens

Microbes that generate methane during their metabolism in environments lacking oxygen.

Vector

An organism, often an insect, that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another.