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单词 litmus test
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litmus test

noun
1 Chemistry A test for acidity or alkalinity using litmus.He defined the modern idea of an ‘element’, as well as introducing the litmus test to tell acids from bases, and introduced many other standard chemical tests.
2A decisively indicative test: effectiveness in these areas is often a good litmus test of overall quality...
  • Under the Federal Guidelines of 1971, statistical representation became the litmus test of discrimination.
  • By the 1900s, it had become the litmus test of public health among the medical profession and the urban middle class.
  • When sex becomes the litmus test of morality, when we focus disproportionate attention on sexual sin, we do harm by omission.
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