Acid vs. Caustic

Difference Between Acid and Caustic

Acidadjective

Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.

acid fruits or liquors

Causticadjective

Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.

Acidadjective

(figuratively) Sour-tempered.

Causticadjective

(of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.

Acidadjective

Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.

Causticnoun

Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

Acidadjective

(music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.

Causticnoun

The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.

Acidnoun

A sour substance.

Causticnoun

(mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.

Acidnoun

(chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:-

Causticnoun

Caustic soda.

Acidnoun

Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.

Causticnoun

any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue

Acidnoun

Any compound that easily donates protons; a Brønsted acid

Causticadjective

harsh or corrosive in tone;

an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prosea barrage of acid commentsher acrid remarks make her many enemiesbitter wordsblistering criticismcaustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethicsa sulfurous denunciation