etchant
etchant — 名詞
1. a chemical liquid or solution that eats away or cuts into a hard surface such as
蝕刻劑
腐蝕材料表面形成圖案的化學液體
a chemical liquid or solution that eats away or cuts into a hard surface such as metal, glass, or silicon, used to create patterns, designs, or electronic circuits
The technician poured a strong etchant onto the copper plate to create the circuit pattern.
技術人員將強力蝕刻劑倒在銅板上，以製作出電路圖案。
use + [etchant] + on + [material]
Different metals require specific etchants for clean results.
不同的金屬需要使用特定的蝕刻劑，才能獲得乾淨的成果。
countable plural: specific etchants
Amelia uses a commercial etchant to prepare silicon wafers for microchip production.
Amelia 使用一種商業蝕刻劑來準備矽晶圓，以進行微晶片生產。
The lab stored the etchant in a sealed glass bottle marked with a warning label.
實驗室將蝕刻劑存放在一個貼有警告標籤的密封玻璃瓶中。
Noor found that heating the etchant made it work much faster on the brass surface.
Noor 發現加熱蝕刻劑能讓它更快地作用於黃銅表面。
- etching agent
more descriptive and slightly less common than 'etchant'
- mordant
specific to printmaking and artistic etching; not used for industrial processes like circuit-making
- protectant
a chemical that shields a surface instead of eating into it
文法句型
use [etchant] on [material]
[etchant] + verb (dissolves, eats away, removes)
用法筆記
Usually found in technical contexts such as electronics manufacturing, metalworking, and printmaking. The noun is countable because different materials require different chemical mixtures for etching.