caustic

To extract usable fibers from wood pulp, workers have to apply a sequential mix of caustic chemicals, and are exposed along the way to carbon disulfide, a volatile byproduct that can cause everything from priapism to death by respiratory failure.

Why do you think that until know you have been cast as the caustic wife in other pieces?

Her father left his entire £2 million fortune to his brother, explaining his decision in a caustic rider to his will.

When his companion reacts to his confession with a caustic joke, he says, confused, “So it makes a difference does it?”

Perhaps the most caustic anti-Republican riff came from Al Gore.

And she does it all with caustic wit and some less-than-charming winking.

Amorphous urates are readily soluble in caustic soda solutions.

Crystals of calcium oxalate are insoluble in acetic acid or caustic soda.

This I attribute to the potash being in a little more caustic condition than when recrystallised with iodine.

Page after page—full of caustic satire, humorous sally and profound epigram—fairly bristles with merriment.

Mr. Stanley replied in a speech of caustic severity, which the agitators of Ireland have never forgotten or forgiven.