Various acids such as phosphoric, lactic, acetic acids at proper concentration and pH can produce corrosion. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
It is called phosphoric light. From Wordnik.com. [The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas] Reference
The crests of the waves sparkled with phosphoric scintillations. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
I have never seen the phosphoric light occasionally thrown out by salt-water, so brilliant as it is here. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
He seemed to be surrounded by a luminous medium; and his nose, his dorsal and side fins, and his tail, each had attached to them slender jets of phosphoric fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
If the bones remain too 'moist' there is a tendency to rickets; against this, certain fish-oils are a well-known remedy on account of their highly phosphoric nature. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
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