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Meaning acid meaning

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acid

An acid is a liquid with a high number of hydrogen ions in it that can burn things. Fruit often has a little acid in it. The acid burned the table. Acids taste sour but bases taste bitter.

acid

If something is acid, it is like an acid, from an acid, or acidic. The factories nearby have made the lake more acid. If something has an acid taste, it is sour. If something said or done to you was acid, it was hurtful. Their acid comments are painful.

acid

any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt (= acerbic, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, vitriolic) harsh or corrosive in tone an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose a barrage of acid comments her acrid remarks make her many enemies bitter words blistering criticism caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics a sulfurous denunciation a vitriolic critique having the characteristics of an acid an acid reaction street name for lysergic acid diethylamide (= acidic) being sour to the taste

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Simple sentences

The acid burned the metal.
The substance must be treated with acid.
The decay of the shrine is due, in part, to acid rain.
There is too much acid in this orange.
Acid acts on things which contain metal.
Acid rain is not a natural phenomenon.
I read an article about acid rain yesterday.
Acid soil is neutralised by ash.
Acid attacks metal.
One of the causes of forest dieback is acid rain.
What's an amino acid?
The auditorium is terribly stained. It is, in part, due to acid rain.
The outside walls of the auditorium are terribly stained. It is, in part, due to acid rain.
The acid ate into the metal.
Acid eats into metal.
She has an acid tongue.
Whatever happened to acid rain? You don't hear about it in the news anymore.
How many liters of water did you use to dilute the acid in the test tube?
Sulfuric acid is stronger than acetic acid.
I ruined one of my best shirts when I spilled some battery acid on the sleeve.
Lemons contain citric acid.

Movie subtitles

The lessons we're learning at the bottom of our oceans and in Yellowstone's acid pits are giving us dramatic insight into how life came to be on our planet.
And it has sulphuric acid rain.
The hot springs at Yellowstone can be PH1, just like battery acid...and 1 94 degrees.
He thinks these acid pits may be one of our biggest clues to understanding how life emerged on Earth.
In fact, the acid in them can dissolve just about anything.
I have some acid here that's a little more concentrated than you'll find in Yellowstone, but the results will be the same.
Now watch what happens to this penny when I drop it in the acid.
Micromegas accidentally falls into a tub of nitric acid.
Oh, what an acid thought. Please.
They threw acid in his face.
My eyes won't stand light. See how acid is the steam?
The sulphuric acid, you fools!
The sulphuric acid'll blow up!
The sulphuric acid!
Just pour in acetic acid.
The more acid, the quicker the liquid rubber resents the insult, and stiffens up into an indignant mass.
Digitalis, for example, and quinine, tannic acid, alum.
Now, my dear, the acid.
And you, Aunt Martha, still the high collar to hide the scar where Grandfather's acid burned you.
Bitter almonds, acid huh?
Acid?
You mean that Simpson. well how about the acid in his drink?
There wasn't any acid in his drink.
It happens to be an idiosyncrasy of the cyanic acid group it breaks up fat in the globules.
Cyanic acid?
Stronger than any acid.
I oughtn't to drink it. It makes me acid.
Acid, you can't wash it away; it browses through your skin.
Well, Prussic Acid.
That is due to its acid imperfection.
I left some acid in the jar.
Three times I burned them with acid and things. It's no good.
Acid mouth.
Get the acid out of your system.
Even as a little girl, you were more of acid type, dear, while I, if you remember.
Your stomach acid flaring up again?
The stain is decolourised with five per cent sulphuric acid and washed with potash, alum and methylin blue.
Pepe has come for some acid for his batteries, Nona.
Not enough acid, and the solution won't bite.
Prussic acid, blue vitriol, ground glass.
I tell you, it gives me a- it's an acid condition.

News and current affairs

The original rapeseed oil was harmful when ingested because of high levels of erucic acid.
After conventional plant breeding led to the development of rapeseed varieties with low concentrations of erucic acid, canola oil became the most commonly consumed oil in Canada.
But high-erucic acid rapeseed oil is still used as a lubricant and plasticizer.
So the high- and low-erucic acid varieties of rapeseed plants must be carefully segregated in the field and thereafter.
Young Indian factory workers who fail to follow instructions are sometimes regret branded with red-hot iron rods, and some teenage Thai prostitutes are disciplined by having acid thrown in their faces.
But this success, and the stability it brings, will be temporary if corruption continues, like corrosive acid, to eat away at the economy and the state.
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) acts as an interpreter in a process called transcription (the reading of genes).
A female bus passenger kept the explosives covered with an acid-dipped cloth to prevent inspection sniffing dogs from sensing it.
The acid test came in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis: because it overestimated the fiscal dimension of the crisis and underestimated its financial dimension, the eurozone performed worse than the United States and the United Kingdom.
Finally, in 1970 a splendid computer innovation enabled the proper alignment of amino acid sequences (which is vital to all subsequent data management).
The human genome, they pointed out, contained a hundred times more amino acid sequences than the existing databases.
They will have to hide themselves in hijab, otherwise they will be punished according to Islam.. Our female students have not issued the threat of throwing acid on the uncovered faces of women.
There have been suggestions that agents containing some acid or alkali were possibly stored in buildings destroyed in the bombing.
With acid rain and other public-health hazards linked to coal combustion, more technologies are emerging for reducing harmful emissions from power plants.
Sooner or later the Taliban will sweep to power again, at liberty as happened before to throw acid in women's faces.
Yet, in China alone, coal-mining accidents kill more than 2,000 people each year - and coal is a leading cause of smog, acid rain, global warming, and air toxicity.
Our female students have not issued the threat of throwing acid on the uncovered faces of women.
Eventually, of course, GDP composition will provide the acid test of whether China has succeeded.
It is this narrow, black-and-white view of humanity that has perpetuated a cycle of violence in Cambodia, where raging mobs beat to death robbery suspects and young mistresses suffer acid attacks by jealous wives.
Research in enzymology and nucleic acid chemistry led to techniques for cutting and rejoining segments of DNA.

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