| 单词 | acid bath |
| 释义 | > as lemmasacid bath acid bath n. an act or the process of immersing or washing something (in early medical use occasionally a person) in a container of acid or an acidic solution, typically as part of a manufacturing process; (also) the container or liquid used for this purpose; also figurative and in figurative context. ΚΠ 1798 W. Blair Ess. Venereal Dis. iii. 115 They afforded the most satisfactory evidence in favour of his acid bath. 1804 Rep. Arts & Manuf. 5 239 The acid-bath is indispensible to give the tow a brilliant white colour. 1876 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1874–5 14 606 An ordinary workman furnished with a coarse galvanometer and a weak acid bath can ascertain the exact electro-condition of each sheet or bar [of iron]. 1915 W. M. Bayliss Princ. Gen. Physiol. xix. 576 Develop [the negative] for three minutes at 18° to 20° in darkness and fix in acid bath. 1959 Jrnl. Criminal Law 49 521/1 Haigh..killed for money and dissolved his victims in an acid bath. 1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) ii. xliv. 440 All the thinking he had done had been etched in a corrosive acid-bath of terror. 2006 M. Pollan Omnivore's Dilemma v. 87 The acid bath swells the kernels and frees the starch from the proteins that surround it. < as lemmas |
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