acids
SayAS-idz/ˈæ.sɪdz/
- 1Plural of acid.
The lab stored several concentrated acids in a ventilated cabinet.
Many fruits owe their sour taste to natural acids.
Note
A plural that counts kinds rather than quantities. Acid works as both a count and a mass noun, so a spill is simply acid, while acids sorts substances into types: the chemist's Arrhenius, Brønsted and Lewis acids, or the acids that make fruit sour. The slang name for LSD stays uncountable. Someone takes acid, never acids, so the plural always points back to chemistry, sourness or corrosion.
acids is a form of acid
acid, noun: A corrosive substance capable of burning or dissolving the materials it contacts. Full entry
- Forms
- acidacids plural
- Spelling
- acid → acids: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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