LazerFX@sh.itjust.workstoMildly Interesting@lemmy.world•This 2000-Year-Old Wine Is Still Pourable. But You Don’t Want to Drink ItEnglish
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4 months ago“My” source?
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That means it’s an aerobic bacterial process (aerobic - operating in the presence of air, or specifically oxygen in this case). Not oxidation, which is specifically the interaction of oxygen interactions with the molecule to bond preferentially over the existing bonds, “rusting” them in common parlance.
Ok. But also - no it doesn’t.
“The mother acetifies the wine into vinegar.”
Not oxidises. Acetic acid is vinegar, formed from wine by the aerobic action of bacteria.