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 caus·tic /ˈkɔstɪk/
 腐蝕劑(a.)腐蝕性的

 caus·tic /ˈkɔstɪk/ 形容詞
 腐蝕性的,苛性的

 Caus·tic Caus·tic·al a.
 1. Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.
 2. Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark.
 Caustic curve Optics, a curve to which the ray of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane.
 Caustic lime. See under Lime.
 Caustic potash, Caustic soda Chem., the solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same.
 Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic.
 Caustic surface Optics, a surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.
 Syn: -- Stinging; cutting; pungent; searching.
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 Cau·stic, n.
 1. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
 2. Optics A caustic curve or caustic surface.
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 caustic
      adj 1: 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" [syn: acerb,
              acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous,
              sulphurous, venomous, virulent, vitriolic]
      2: of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of
         destroying or eating away by chemical action [syn: corrosive,
          erosive, vitriolic]
      n : any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue