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Definition of Acid-wash
1. Verb. Wash with acid so as to achieve a bleached look. "They acid-wash the cape "; "Acid-wash blue jeans"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acid-wash
Literary usage of Acid-wash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to Economic Geology (short Papers and Preliminary Reports) 1917 by F. L. Ransome, E F Burchard, Hoyt S Gale, Geological Survey (U.S.), David White, Geological Survey (U.S. (1918)
"On treatment with the alcohol-acid wash liquid, the residue often assumes the
amorphous or noncrystalline condition. In this event the mixture should be set ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of war risk insurance. Division of military and naval insurance, United States (1917)
"If necessary scrape the surface well and then clean with raw acid, wash with
water and then flux with cut acid. Always leave the repair smooth. ..."
3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1877)
"I have twice before, in the pages of this Journal, recommended for such cases
the use of the sulphurous acid wash, originally recommended by Dr. Dewar of ..."
4. The Art of Electro-metallurgy Including All Known Processes of Electro by George Gore (1887)
"Decant the liquid, boil the residue with dilute hydrochloric acid ; wash it and
... Dissolve the saline residue in boiling sulphuric acid, wash it then with ..."
5. Standards and Tests for Reagent Chemicals by Benjamin Lindley Murray (1920)
"Wash the filter with ammoniacal water until perfectly free from copper, dissolve
any residue on the filter in a little dilute hydrochloric acid, wash the ..."
6. Coal Tar Distillation and Working Up of Tar Products by Arthur Robert Warnes (1918)
"This weak acid wash will completely remove all the pyridine. The contents of the
washer should be allowed to settle, and the weak pyridine acid which ..."
7. Household surgery, or, Hints on emergencies by John Flint South (1850)
"Nitric Acid Wash Is very proper for a sluggish sore with a stinking discharge,
which often depends on the bone being ..."
8. The Print Connoisseur by Winifred Porter Truesdell (1922)
"behind and between the delicately etched lines, but a manner of laying the acid
wash on the plate. The illusion of splashing water is complete, ..."
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