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  2. Caustic (optics) - Wikipedia

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    The rays refracted by a non-flat surface form caustics where many of them cross. Concentration of light, especially sunlight, can burn.The word caustic, in fact, comes from the Greek καυστός, burnt, via the Latin causticus, burning.

  3. Causticity - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 22 August 2023, at 12:27 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  4. Caustic (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The rays refracted by a non-flat surface form caustics where many of them cross. Concentration of light, especially sunlight, can burn.The word caustic, in fact, comes from the Greek καυστός, burnt, via the Latin causticus, burning.

  5. Caustic - Wikipedia

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    Caustic most commonly refers to: . Causticity, the property of being able to corrode organic tissue. Sodium hydroxide, sometimes called caustic soda; Potassium hydroxide, sometimes called caustic potash

  6. Overdetermination - Wikipedia

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    The New Critic I. A. Richards appealed to Freud's idea of overdetermination while explaining why what Richards called a 'context theorem of meaning' showed the importance of ambiguity in rhetoric, the philosophy of language, and literary criticism:

  7. Sensory overload - Wikipedia

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    Sensory overload has been found to be associated with other disorders and conditions such as: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) . People with ADHD display hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli from a young age; this hypersensitivity often persists into adulthood.

  8. White liquor - Wikipedia

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    White liquor consists mainly of sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide in water and is the active component in Kraft pulping. [1] White liquor also contains minor amounts of sodium carbonate, sodium sulfate, sodium thiosulfate, sodium chloride, calcium carbonate and other accumulated salts and non-process elements.

  9. Cosima Wagner - Wikipedia

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    Portrait by Franz von Lenbach, 1879. Francesca Gaetana Cosima Wagner (née Liszt; 24 December 1837 – 1 April 1930) was the daughter of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt and Franco-German romantic author Marie d'Agoult.