what are the uses of glutamic acid?
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Acceptor and a donor of ammonia, a compound toxic to the body.\n\nglutamic acid (gltăm´ĭk) is organic compound, one of the 20 amino acids commonly found in animal proteins. Only the L-stereoisomer occurs in mammalian proteins. Like aspartic acid, glutamic acid has an acidic carboxyl group on its side chain which can serve as both an acceptor and a donor of ammonia, a compound toxic to the body. Once glutamic acid has coupled with ammonia, it is called glutamine and can as such safely transport ammonia to the liver, where the ammonia is eventually converted to urea for excretion by the kidneys. Free glutamic acid (that not incorporated into proteins) can also be converted reversibly to α-ketoglutaric acid, an intermediate in the Krebs cycle, and as such can be degraded to carbon dioxide and water, or transformed into sugars. The acidic side chain of glutamic acid confers one negative charge under most conditions to proteins in which this amino acid is found, thus increasing the water solubility of the protein. Monosodium glutamate (MSG), the monosodium salt of L-glutamic acid, is widely used as a condiment. The amino acid was isolated from wheat gluten in 1866 and chemically synthesized in 1890. It is not essential to the human diet, since it can be synthesized in the body from the common intermediate α-ketoglutaric acid.
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MSDS for Monosodium glutamate (not glutimate)\n\nC5H8NO4Na
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Potassium - Nutritionists use this along with other vitamins and minerals to restore electrolyte balance in anorexic and bulimic patients.  (Just one example)\n\nPotassium chloride - Used by executioners who administer the death penalty by lethal injection.  A massive dose of this stops the heart.\n\nPotassium bicarbonate - Used to retard or put out oil well fires.\n\nPotassium hydroxide - Used as an ingredient in soap by soap manufacturers.\n\nPotassium nitrate - Used in the manufacture of fertilizer, matches (along with sulphur), and pyrotechnics.
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Citric acid and products like Biocid have been used.\n\nhttp://www.ultra-chemical.com/index2.htm
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"""\nMCPBA is versatile - applicable as peracid for use in laboratories. \n\nMain areas are the oxidation of \n\n    * aldehydes and ketones to esters (Bayer-Villiger-Oxidation)\n    * olefines to epoxides\n    * sulfides to sulfoxides and sulfones\n    * amines to nitroalkanes, nitroxides or N-oxides\n"""
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Any acid.  Vinegar is the best probably.
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sciencelab.com has just about anything you'll need!\nhttp://www.sciencelab.com/search.php?q=acetic+acid+-acemetacin+-acetamide+-benzyl
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Sialic Acids have a few functions that I'm aware of. It gives saliva its slippery feel, can also act as a decoy for invading pathogens, and can act as a receptor for influenza viruses to allow attachment to mucous cells.
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Don't know much about it except it's used as a catalyst in metal processing and plating\n\nthis might help though\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiourea
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it is used to preserve food products.in human body (liver) it will convert to succinyl CoA(one of the enzymes that carry out this function need Vitamin B12 as coenzyme) which is krebs cycle intermediate!
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Here are a few:\n\nAmmonium Nitrate - fertilizer \nSodium Benzoate - a preservative\nSodium Hypochlorite - household bleach, whitening and disinfecting agent\nCalcium Sulfate dihydrate - Gypsum, used to make drywall
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a) carboxyl and amine groups\n\nan amino acid is any molecule that contains both amine and carboxyl functional groups
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Probably not many uses. It has a half life of 58 minutes. You can read about it at the link.
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Tannic acid helps control the muscular contractions of the intestines.
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Gluten is used as a filler in many meat products and convenience foods. It is also used in food preparation factories to keep foods from sticking to the conveyor belts. I would not advise hot dogs see\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten-free_diet
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ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid\n\nIt has lots of commercial uses and is used in making all kinds of things such as beer, canned food, and shampoo. In fact more than 100,000 metric tons are created every year.
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Uses\nRadionuclides are used in two major ways: for their chemical properties and as sources of radiation.\n\nRadionuclides of familiar elements such as carbon can serve as tracers because they are chemically very similar to the non-radioactive nuclides, so most chemical, biological, and ecological processes treat them in a near identical way. One can then examine the result with a radiation detector, such as a geiger counter, to determine where the provided atoms ended up. For example, one might culture plants in an environment in which the carbon dioxide contained radioactive carbon; then the parts of the plant that had laid down atmospheric carbon would be radioactive.\n\nIn medicine, radioisotopes are used for diagnosis, treatment, and research. Radioactive chemical tracers emitting gamma rays that can provide diagnostic information about a person's internal anatomy and the functioning of specific organs. This is used in some forms of tomography single emission computed tomography and positron emission tomography scanning. Radioisotopes are also a promising method of treatment in hemopoietic forms of tumors, while the success for treatment of a solid tumors has been limited so far. More powerful gamma sources are used to sterilise syringes and other medical equipment. About one in two people in Western countries are likely to experience the benefits of nuclear medicine in their lifetime.\n\nIn biochemistry and genetics, radionuclides are used to label molecules and allow tracing chemical and physiological processes occurring in living organisms, such as DNA replication or amino acid transport.\n\nIn food preservation, radiation is used to stop the sprouting of root crops after harvesting, to kill parasites and pests, and to control the ripening of stored fruit and vegetables.\n\nIn agriculture and animal husbandry, radionuclides also play an important role. They are used to produce high intake of crops, disease and weather resistant varieties of crops, to study how fertilisers and insecticides work, and to improve the production and health of domestic animals.\n\nIndustrially, and in mining, radionuclides are used to examine welds, to detect leaks, to study the rate of wear of metals, and for on-stream analysis of a wide range of minerals and fuels.\n\nMost household smoke detectors contain the radionuclide americium formed in nuclear reactors, saving many lives.\n\nEnvironmentally, radionuclides are used to trace and analyse pollutants, to study the movement of surface water, and to measure water runoffs from rain and snow, as well as the flow rates of streams and rivers.\n\nNatural radionuclides can be used in archaeology and in paleontology to measure ages. When radioactive carbon, for example, is in the atmosphere, it rapidly becomes separated from its decay products. Once it is bound up in a solid, such as wood or paper, its decay products must remain in place. So by measuring how much of these decay products has accumulated, one can estimate the time when the carbon was captured into solid form.