This adjective for a scathing comment or review literally refers to sulfuric acid
[DOC] [TLE] The Transition of Execution Methods in North Carolina - Virginia Tech [PAR] Apr 30, 2001 ... Norbert Elias (1939) refers to the concept of civility ...... historical review of capital 
punishment in North Carolina from the colonial ..... condemned would literally 
strangle to death for upwards of half an hour, ..... pellets into a solution of sulfuric 
acid and water.