To treat or combine a substance with acetic acid, or to convert something into an acetate compound.
From acetic acid + the suffix -ize (meaning to make or convert), a 19th-century chemical term for the process of acetylation or adding an acetyl group.
The verb 'acetize' represents how chemists turn nouns into action words—if you acetize something, you're essentially giving it an acetic 'makeover' by chemically bonding it with acetic compounds.
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