Mordant vs Acrid - What's the difference?
mordant | acrid |
Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.
* 1964', ''In dyeing two mediums are required, the colouring matter and the '''mordant which fixes the dye in the wool.'' — , ''English Industries of the Middle Ages , p. 208.
Any corrosive substance used in etching.
To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.
Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.
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, title= Causing heat and irritation; corrosive.
Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.
As adjectives the difference between mordant and acrid
is that mordant is having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe while acrid is sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste; pungent.As a noun mordant
is any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.As a verb mordant
is to subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.mordant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Mordant these goods for dyeing.
See also
* (wikipedia "mordant") * mordentAnagrams
* ----acrid
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
