acidizedadj.
/ˈasᵻdʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈæsəˌdaɪzd/ Treated with acid, acidified; (of a well) injected with acid to improve output (see acidize v.).
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1847 Amer. Jrnl. Agric. 4 346/2 This must be continued until all the green particles have become sufficiently acidized to precipitate.
1855 C. M'Intosh Bk. Gardenv II. 313/2 Seeds vegetated sooner when placed at the negative pole of a galvanic battery than at the positive or acidised pole.
1951 Jrnl. Paleontol. 25 575 [He] had described the ostracodes two years earlier from some acidized material sent to him by the U.S. Geological Survey.
1969 Canad. Antiques Collector July 15/1 Wheeling Peachblow [glass] is finished with both a glossy and an acidized finish and decorated occasionally with gold.
2002 Oil & Gas Jrnl. (Nexis) 18 Feb. 69 The company modeled the acid treatment in [an oil well]..with use of a fracture model and predicted the acidized fracture dimensions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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