caustic

In chemistry, descriptive of substances (normally strongly alkaline) which are destructive, particularly to biological tissue. Caustic soda is sodium hydroxide; caustic potash is potassium hydroxide.

Caustic may refer to:

Caustic (substance), a substance that 'eats away' or chemically burns other materials Sodium hydroxide, sometimes called caustic soda Calcium oxide, sometimes called caustic lime Caustic (optics), the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object, or the projection of that envelope of rays on another surface Caustic (mathematics), the envelope of rays reflected or refracted by a manifold, in differential geometry Caustic (band), an American industrial / powernoise band

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