1.   An acid bath at the end washes away unwanted pieces, leaving tiny hinges, rotors or other mechanical elements of the minute silicon machines.

2.   Any altruistic tendencies should have disappeared, washed away in the acid bath of competition.

3.   Her bright, poppy melodies and ear-candy sweet musical hooks belie the acid bath of her lyrics, which mostly deal with disappointing relationships.

4.   His skills have progressed far beyond the acid baths to chip technology and the Internet.

5.   Sulzer has since restored the acid baths and added tests to detect residues.

6.   The plate is placed in an acid bath, where the exposed portions of the metal are eaten away.

7.   They watched a cut-and-dried homicide case dissolve in an acid bath of legal grandstanding, investigatory incompetence and racial ill will.

8.   While the movie is slick and adult in its appeal, it also amounts to an acid bath.

9.   Industrialized countries have switched from acid baths to an advanced and safer electroplating system.