caustic
IPA: kˈɑstɪk
noun
- Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
- (optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
- (mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
- (informal, chemistry) Caustic soda.
adjective
- Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
- (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
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Examples of "caustic" in Sentences
- The raw juice and pulp are caustic.
- Another familiar caustic is the rainbow.
- The burns are caused by caustic chemicals.
- The caustic washed product is then hydrogenated.
- The fuel was declad by boiling it in caustic soda.
- The book has been described as bitter and caustic.
- It's full of flippant, caustic remarks about the subject.
- The concentration of this caustic soda is crucial to the test.
- The caustic solution reacts with mercaptans and extracts them.
- The curve defined in the sky in this way is a directional caustic.