- Allegedly invigorating seaside air - Apparently owes own pure air - Atmosphere layer - Australian number has a bracing air - Circle district for special oxygen - Circle district to locate smelly gas - Colourless gas
- Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating
away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing. - Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark.
- To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a
residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to
char. - To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making
steel by cementation.
- scathing criticism - Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing,
changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the
corrosive action of an acid. - Having the quality of fretting or vexing. - That which has the quality of eating or wearing away
gradually. - That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
- A rare metallic element, of the same group as platinum,
which it much resembles, being silver-white, but harder, and brittle,
and indifferent to most corrosive agents. With the exception of osmium,
it is the heaviest substance known, its specific gravity being 22.4.
Symbol Ir. Atomic weight 192.5.