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  • adjective Alternative spelling of acidproof.

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Examples

  • When another grazing mammal eats them, their acid-proof shell carries them safely through the stomach and into the intestines.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • When another grazing mammal eats them, their acid-proof shell carries them safely through the stomach and into the intestines.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • When another grazing mammal eats them, their acid-proof shell carries them safely through the stomach and into the intestines.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Pure zinc matt glazes are soft and not acid-proof, so for dinnerware it should be used in combination with other matting agents.

    12. Developing glazes 1993

  • After the fruit has been selected and prepared as usual by washing, stemming, and so forth, it is ready to be heated in an acid-proof kettle.

    Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray

  • -- A paste formed by mixing powdered glass with a concentrated solution of silicate of soda makes an excellent acid-proof cement.

    The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens

  • He takes the black-and-white drawing above referred to and reproduces it, in the size desired, directly on a brass plate covered with a sensitive coating, and then having prepared it with acid-proof preparations, he passes it over to the etcher.

    The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various

  • Boil slowly for fifteen minutes in an enameled or acid-proof kettle.

    Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray

  • Heat slowly in acid-proof kettle until fruit is tender.

    Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray

  • Two generators sufficed, these being "nothing more than large tanks of wood, acid-proof inside, and of sufficient strength to resist the expansive action of the gas; they were provided with suitable stopcocks for regulating the admission of the gas, and with manhole covers for introducing the necessary materials."

    The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation John Mackenzie Bacon 1875

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