Combustible vs Caustic - What's the difference?
combustible | caustic |
Capable of burning
* South
(figurative) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
* Washington Irving
Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
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Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
(optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
(mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
(informal, chemistry) caustic soda
As adjectives the difference between combustible and caustic
is that combustible is capable of burning while caustic is caustic.As a noun combustible
is a material that is capable of burning.combustible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught on fire.
- Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.
- Arnold was a combustible character.