lunar caustic

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noun Medicine/Medical, Chemistry.

silver nitrate, AgNO3, especially in a sticklike mold, used to cauterize tissues.

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Origin of lunar caustic

First recorded in 1790–1800

Words nearby lunar caustic

Lumumba, Luna, lunacy, luna moth, lunar, lunar caustic, lunar cycle, lunar day, lunar distance, lunar eclipse, lunar excursion module

How to use lunar caustic in a sentence

Tao Lin charts the path of lunar hamsters in search of some decent wifi sometime in the year 2027.
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Why do you think that until know you have been cast as the caustic wife in other pieces?
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Her father left his entire £2 million fortune to his brother, explaining his decision in a caustic rider to his will.
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When his companion reacts to his confession with a caustic joke, he says, confused, “So it makes a difference does it?”
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Chan was not among the Chinese authors whose opinion on the lunar landing Xinhua reporters sought.
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Amorphous urates are readily soluble in caustic soda solutions.
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Crystals of calcium oxalate are insoluble in acetic acid or caustic soda.
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This I attribute to the potash being in a little more caustic condition than when recrystallised with iodine.
Notes and Queries, Number 177, March 19, 1853|Various
Page after page—full of caustic satire, humorous sally and profound epigram—fairly bristles with merriment.
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The continent of Europe-Asia would of itself appear larger than all the lunar surface which is visible to us.
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British Dictionary definitions for lunar caustic

lunar caustic

noun

silver nitrate fused into sticks, which were formerly used in cauterizing

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