In 1975, the 20-year-old Jobs and Wozniak set up shop in Jobs' parents' garage, dubbed the venture Apple, and began working on the prototype of the Apple I. To generate the $1,350 in capital they used to start Apple, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen microbus, and Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard calculator.
carboxyl group. in organic chemistry, group of atoms within a molecule that is responsible for certain properties of the molecule and reactions in which it takes part. Organic compounds are frequently classified according to the functional group or groups they contain.
A carboxylic acid /ËkÉrbÉkËsÉªlÉªk/ is an organic compound that contains a carboxyl group (C(O)OH). The general formula of a carboxylic acid is RâC(O)OH with R referring to the rest of the (possibly quite large) molecule.Carboxylic acids occur widely and include the amino acids and acetic acid (as vinegar).arboxylic acids react with bases to form carboxylate salts, in which the hydrogen of the hydroxyl (-OH) group is replaced with a metal cation. Thus, acetic acid found in vinegar reacts with sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) to form sodium acetate, carbon dioxide, and water: