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What does causticity mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality of being physically caustic; burning, corrosive.
  2. (figuratively) Being caustic in speech, humour etc.
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Causticity is the ratio of NaOH to active alkali, expressed as a percentage.
But I am very far from thinking that the causticity of quick-lime is at all owing to this circumstance.
I know it will be all sense for the church, and all causticity for schism.
It explains at once causticity and non-causticity, transparency and opacity, colour and the absence of colours.
He now knew to what the causticity of alkalies is owing, and how to induce it, or remove it, at pleasure.
The one represented the strength and goodness of the people, the other its turbulence and causticity.

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