battery acid

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   dilute sulfuric acid used in storage batteries

   Synonymselectrolyte acid

   Broadervitriol

Questions about battery acid

What does battery acid mean?

battery acid means "dilute sulfuric acid used in storage batteries".

What is another word for battery acid?

Close synonyms include electrolyte acid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is battery acid a common word?

battery acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.