In a sentence
Six example sentences with acidic, each labelled with its topic.
A squeeze of lemon makes the sauce acidic enough to cut through the butter without anyone tasting citrus.
Cooking
Rain falling through the smokestack plume turned the lake acidic, and the trout population collapsed within two decades.
Environment
Old darkroom fixer is mildly acidic, so technicians rinse the trays before storing them to protect the metal sink.
Photography
Doctors warned that the acidic drinks were softening his tooth enamel, and the dentist confirmed it a month later.
Medicine
Cheap acidic paper turns brown within decades, so archivists store the drawings in folders made without wood pulp.
Art
The students tested each solution with litmus, and the acidic ones turned the strip red before anyone could count to three.
Science
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