Caustics
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The word caustics, meaning "to burn" or "burning", may refer to:
- Caustic (substance), a substance that 'eats away' or chemically burns other materials by process of attacking it basically or acidically
- Caustic (optics), a bundle of light rays
- Caustic, in differential geometry, the envelope of rays either reflected or refracted by a manifold. It is related to the optical concept of caustics
- Sodium hydroxide, sometimes called caustic soda
- Caustic (band), a rock band based in the Highlands of Scotland.
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