Yes. I misspoke. The decomposition doesn't start releasing acids to act on other compounds in the powder (or the can) and to accelerate NC breakdown until the stabilizer has been consumed. What consumes the stabilizer is scavenging smaller quantities of those same acid decomposition products from the much slower spontaneous NC decomposition that occurs in the absence of acid in any significant concentration.
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