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- adjective Alternative spelling of
acidproof .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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Pure zinc matt glazes are soft and not acid-proof, so for dinnerware it should be used in combination with other matting agents.
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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
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-- 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
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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.
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Boil slowly for fifteen minutes in an enameled or acid-proof kettle.
Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray
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Heat slowly in acid-proof kettle until fruit is tender.
Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray
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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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