Definition of caustic

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Caustic (a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic..

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Corrode :: Corrode (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali..
Pyrotic :: Pyrotic (a.) Caustic. See Caustic.
Escharotic :: Escharotic (n.) A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic..
Causticily :: Causticily (n.) Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark..
Causticily :: Causticily (n.) The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash..
Caustic :: Caustic (a.) A caustic curve or caustic surface.
Satire :: Satire (a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
Eschar :: Eschar (n.) A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics..
Pyrotic :: Pyrotic (n.) A caustic medicine.
Causticness :: Causticness (n.) The quality of being caustic; causticity.
Encaustic :: Encaustic (a.) The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors..
Sepia :: Sepia (n.) A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India..
Diaeretic :: Diaeretic (a.) Caustic.
Catheretic :: Catheretic (n.) A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.
Indol :: Indol (n.) A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora..
Metacrolein :: Metacrolein (n.) A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash. It is a crystalline substance having an aromatic odor.
Alkali :: Alkali (n.) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue..
Caustic :: Caustic (a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic..
Diacaustic :: Diacaustic (a.) Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic..
Lithia :: Lithia (n.) The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium..
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