"drain-cleaner" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1974, Rod O’Connor, Charles Mickey, Solving Problems in Chemistry: With Emphasis on Stoichiometry and Equilibrium, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, page 197",
          "text": "A number of the commercial drain-cleaners contain either solid or aqueous NaOH or KOH because of the effectiveness of these in solubilizing the animal greases often responsible for clogged drains. Partly as a result of \"high pressure\" advertising techniques urging the regular use of some of these drain-cleaners, waste effluent from many high-density housing areas is strongly alkaline.",
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          "ref": "1976, Bill Pronzini, “Games”, in Snowbound / Games: Two Mysteries by Bill Pronzini, Eureka, Calif.: Stark House Press, published 2007, page 308",
          "text": "He bent to the cabinet on the left, and inside were an assortment of plumbing supplies, cans of touch-up paint and pipe dope and all-purpose oil, a plastic quart bottle of liquid drain-cleaner— Drain-cleaner. […] Carrying the wire and the bottle of drain-cleaner, he returned to the kitchen and looked out again through the window at the main house.",
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          "ref": "1984, Harold M. Silverman, The Consumer’s Guide to Poison Protection, New York, N.Y.: Avon, page 159",
          "text": "Remember to take the bottle of drain-cleaner or other corrosive with you.",
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          "ref": "1993, M. J. Saxby, “A survey of chemicals causing taints and off-flavours in foods”, in M. J. Saxby, editor, Food Taints and Off-Flavours, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow: Blackie Academic & Professional, Chapman & Hall, pages 55–56",
          "text": "It should be emphasised that when these drain-cleaners are used strictly according to the manufacturer’s instructions, no taint occurs in the meat; it is only when misused that any problem arises.",
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          "ref": "1993, Stephen King, “The Moving Finger”, in Nightmares and Dreamscapes, London: BCA, →OCLC, page 212",
          "text": "Howard tiptoed across the room with the bottle of drain-cleaner clutched tightly in his right hand.\nUnhyphenated in original publication (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1990).",
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          "ref": "1974, Rod O’Connor, Charles Mickey, Solving Problems in Chemistry: With Emphasis on Stoichiometry and Equilibrium, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, page 197",
          "text": "A number of the commercial drain-cleaners contain either solid or aqueous NaOH or KOH because of the effectiveness of these in solubilizing the animal greases often responsible for clogged drains. Partly as a result of \"high pressure\" advertising techniques urging the regular use of some of these drain-cleaners, waste effluent from many high-density housing areas is strongly alkaline.",
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          "text": "He bent to the cabinet on the left, and inside were an assortment of plumbing supplies, cans of touch-up paint and pipe dope and all-purpose oil, a plastic quart bottle of liquid drain-cleaner— Drain-cleaner. […] Carrying the wire and the bottle of drain-cleaner, he returned to the kitchen and looked out again through the window at the main house.",
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          "ref": "1993, M. J. Saxby, “A survey of chemicals causing taints and off-flavours in foods”, in M. J. Saxby, editor, Food Taints and Off-Flavours, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow: Blackie Academic & Professional, Chapman & Hall, pages 55–56",
          "text": "It should be emphasised that when these drain-cleaners are used strictly according to the manufacturer’s instructions, no taint occurs in the meat; it is only when misused that any problem arises.",
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