Bible Dictionary: Acid

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A substance that can neutralize a base and is sour, sharp, or biting to the taste.

2. (a.) of or pertaining to an acid; as, acid reaction.

3. (n.) A sour substance.

4. (n.) One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalis or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids.

Greek

3691. oxus -- sharp, swift
... sharp, swift. Probably akin to the base of akmen ("acid"); keen; by analogy, rapid --
sharp, swift. see GREEK akmen. (oxeia) -- 2 Occurrences. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5427. nether -- natron or carbonate of soda
... nitre. From nathar; mineral potash (so called from effervescing with acid) -- nitre.
see HEBREW nathar. 5426, 5427. nether. 5428 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

On a Piece of Chalk. A Lecture to Working Men.
... Chalk, in fact, is a compound of carbonic acid gas and lime, and when you make
it very hot the carbonic acid flies away and the lime is left. ...
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Blind Force or Intelligence, Which?
... change of a part of that sugar so as to set at liberty a large amount of carbon,
which, uniting with the oxygen of the air, forms carbonic acid, and this ...
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On the Physical Basis of Life.
... of calc-spar consists of carbonate of lime, is quite true, if we only mean that,
by appropriate processes, it may be resolved into carbonic acid and quicklime. ...
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Letter Lxxxviii. (AD 406. )
... Not contented with beating us with bludgeons and killing some with the sword, they
even, with incredible ingenuity in crime, throw lime mixed with acid [? ...
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Foreword
... His pleasantly acid wit was a perpetual joy: no one ever poked fun more delightfully
at the follies and pretensions of unbelief and at the timidities of ...
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A Little Sermon to School-Girls.
... We can prove to them that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles,
or that an acid and an alkali will combine to form a salt; but we can never ...
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The Omission of These Twelve Verses in Certain Ancient Copies of ...
... Here then is a rare coincidence indeed. It is in fact simply unique. Surely,
I may acid that it is in the highest degree suggestive also. ...
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The Parable of the Leaven.
... are certain things so blended, and the yeast-plant takes one kind of substance as
food, and in doing so sets free another substance called carbonic acid gas. ...
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A Divided Heart
... But when our doctrinal divisions grow to so great a head that we cease to co-operate;
when our opinions upon mere ordinances become so acid towards each other ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/a divided heart.htm

China Inland Mission Normal Training College, Hwochow, Shansi
... Chlorate. Explain the principle of the Dewar bulb. Define the term "Acid."
Enumerate the characteristics of a "Base.". Two compounds ...
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Thesaurus

Acid (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) of or pertaining to an acid; as, acid reaction. 3. (n.) A sour
substance. ... Multi-Version Concordance Acid (2 Occurrences). ...
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Sour (15 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (superl.) Having an acid or sharp, biting taste,
like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart. ...
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Equivalent (3 Occurrences)
... proportions by which one element replaces another in any particular compound; thus,
as zinc replaces hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 ...
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Pomegranate (11 Occurrences)
... The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard rind containing many rather large
seeds, each one separately covered with crimson, acid pulp. ...
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Normal (3 Occurrences)
... 5. (a.) Denoting certain hypothetical compounds, as acids from which the real acids
are obtained by dehydration; thus, normal sulfuric acid and normal nitric ...
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Turn (963 Occurrences)
... Iliad. 9. (vt) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to
turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly. 10. ...
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Metal (69 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or
hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals ...
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Prick (2 Occurrences)
... 17. (n.) To render acid or pungent. 18. (n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with
up. 19. ... 25. (vi) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine. 26. ...
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Base (127 Occurrences)
... 15. (n.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
16. (n.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance ...
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Ate (138 Occurrences)
... it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting
binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from ...
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Bible Concordance

Acid (2 Occurrences)

Proverbs 10:26 Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.
(BBE)

Proverbs 25:20 Like one who takes off clothing in cold weather and like acid on a wound, is he who makes melody to a sad heart.
(BBE)

Subtopics

Acid

Related Terms

Sour (15 Occurrences)

Equivalent (3 Occurrences)

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Normal (3 Occurrences)

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