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How to use caustic in a sentence

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While emphasising the need for discipline, she exuded a caustic anti-establishment manner which at the time I found particularly refreshing.
Values between 7 and 14 are found in basic or alkaline solutions such as caustic or washing soda.
The first experiments with the caustic potash purification had been conducted in glass retorts, but they were less successful when scaled up.
Kathleen Jamie should have used quicklime rather than caustic soda to deflesh her gannet's skull, but maggots would have been best.
The caustic of the tricuspoid, where the rays are parallel and in any direction, is an astroid.
At the time with which we are concerned lunar caustic was used as an astringent, in medicine and for cosmetic purposes, and for marking linen.
For a long time in the treatment of places to be cauterized, only the dreaded nitrate of lunar caustic was used to produce the caustic effect.
Sodium hydroxide, NaOH, also known as lye and caustic soda, is one of the most important of all industrial chemicals.
Because soap is made primarily from a caustic blend of boiled animal fat, lye and soda, it is highly alkaline.
The fact is that etching chips requires the use of caustic chemicals that pollute the air and water.
A caustic wit, a penetrating eye, a stiletto tongue that enjoyed drawing blood, she wasn't everyone's cup of tea.
Dorothy Parker wrote for the New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines with a caustic pen, but her biting wit also had a mournful edge.
It was impossible not to wince, though, when the caustic chemical bit into open flesh.
Their caustic relationship alternates between comic turns and hair-raising go-for-blood verbal combat.
But there are few if any satirical sideswipes or caustic commentaries on the people living day to day in his fiction.
In the briny Nova Scotia climate, Galvalume coated steel guards against caustic winds and salt air.
His elegant, meticulously phrased performances of Haydn and Mozart became legendary, as did his caustic, witty bons mots.
Her flesh was torn and raw and now unpityingly scorched on that side exposed to the caustic desert sun.
His stunning voice has always had a caustic force behind it, almost as if he's sneering and laughing all at once.
A bracing exhilaration rises from his caustic treatment of everyone else's values.
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She had not been caustic, like his mother, about this male incursion into spring-cleaning.
It is distinguished from corrosive sublimate by forming a black precipitate with caustic potash and by its insolubility in water.
Iodphenol is obtained by the action of iodine and iodic acid on phenol dissolved in a dilute solution of caustic potash.
If a fifth normal caustic solution is used, the reading on the burette gives the percentage of free fatty acid directly.
His caustic audacity salted his sycophancy and made him a man apart from the herd of flatterers.
The application of lunar caustic is also very effective, but it turns the spot temporarily black.
The warts should be clipped off with sharp scissors and their roots burned with a solid pencil of lunar caustic.
The wound should then be thoroughly washed by a stream of water, long poured over it, and lunar caustic afterwards applied.
He puts quick-lime into the young ladies' puff-box, and gives them a wash of lunar caustic to allay the irritation.
The second titration gives the amount of caustic alkali present, and the difference between the two the proportion of carbonate.
It has a very powerful odour, resembling that of some of the umbelliferous plants, and is unaffected by caustic potassa.
Resorcine, like naphthol, is insoluble in water, but it can be dissolved by using either soda ash or caustic soda.
It may, therefore, remain a question whether the lunar caustic may not still prove useful in phagedenic ulcers of a smaller size.
This calcium hydroxide is a substance which is very caustic, and care must be exercised in handling it.
Furthermore, fisetin should give protocatechuic acid and phloroglucinol by fusion with caustic potash under proper conditions.
The commercial annotta is dissolved in an alkaline solution, either caustic or carbonated, and then precipitated by an acid.
Granulation tissue should be controlled by the application of silver nitrate in the form of a caustic pencil.
I now introduced the lunar caustic very freely into these openings, and reapplied a cold poultice and lotion.
I reapplied the caustic and desired that the eschar might be exposed to dry.
I reapplied the lunar caustic to form eschars, and I evacuated a little fluid from their centre for three successive days.
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