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pickled

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pickled
Said of a metal surface which has been treated with a strong oxidizing agent, such as nitric acid, to clean, to provide a strong inert oxide film, and to increase corrosion resistance.
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Early in June it happened that Agafea Mihalovna, the old nurse and housekeeper, in carrying to the cellar a jar of mushrooms she had just pickled, slipped, fell, and sprained her wrist.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
On the tray was a bottle of herb wine, different kinds of vodka, pickled mushrooms, rye cakes made with buttermilk, honey in the comb, still mead and sparkling mead, apples, nuts (raw and roasted), and nut-and-honey sweets.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The Wandle, the Mole, every little stream, was a heaped mass of red weed, in appearance between butcher's meat and pickled cabbage.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
 
 
 
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