Severely critical

Usage examples of caustic.

With Aesculus the tips were quite indifferent to bodies attached to them, though sensitive to caustic.

Petrone believes it was due to a chromogenic micrococcus, and relieved the patient by the use of a five per cent solution of caustic potash.

Manner in which radicles bend when they encounter an obstacle in the soil--Vicia faba, tips of radicles highly sensitive to contact and other irritants--Effects of too high a temperature--Power of discriminating between objects attached on opposite sides--Tips of secondary radicles sensitive--Pisum, tips of radicles sensitive--Effects of such sensitiveness in overcoming geotropism--Secondary radicles--Phaseolus, tips of radicles hardly sensitive to contact, but highly sensitive to caustic and to the removal of a slice--Tropaeolum--Gossypium--Cucurbita--Raphanus--Aesculus, tip not sensitive to slight contact, highly sensitive to caustic--Quercus, tip highly sensitive to contact--Power of discrimination--Zea, tip highly sensitive, secondary radicles--Sensitiveness of radicles to moist air--Summary of chapter.

Household Pests, Hugo Hartnack complained in the 1930s about a chemical used for bedbugs that was so caustic it took the finish off metal beds.

Quassia or Quashy, the black horse, and Caustic, the old bay, with whom he jogged round the village.

These comprise soda ash, soda crystals, caustic soda, silicate of soda, potash, caustic potash, soaps of various kinds, stale urine, ammoniacal compounds.

They drag-crawled and with their wavering spanworm walk stomped toward the train and even touched it and gnawed at it, marked it with stone-hard teeth and caustic spit.

Given the nature of modern teenaged society, Crystal was not surprised that she had jumped at the chance to be included among an elite, chosen few or that she wanted revenge on the brutally caustic Harmony Kendall.

Yun Yun could prove her thorns were sharp, and often did, with caustic comments that stung worse than any pricked finger.

After one day slight deflection, but the cauterised mark was so faint that the same side was again touched with caustic.

When the caustic was applied to the three cauterised specimens, it was held quite motionless during 5 seconds, and the result was that the black marks were extremely minute.

These two layers are sometimes well seen when a gland has been crushed or boiled in caustic potash.

Most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians, by Christopher Caustic, M.

The intensity of her interest in Slayer mythos compiled by Watchers was intriguing, but since comment usually triggered a tirade of caustic sarcasm, Xander had dropped the subject.

They call it pour-and-run because even in the open air only a full-body antiexposure suit and an industrialstrength ventilator or positive-flow breathing system will save anyone within fifty yards from being asphyxiated by the sulfur dioxide fumes or severely burned by caustic acid.