Acid test

Acid test

Acid test may refer to:

*Acid test (gold), a test used to determine weather a metal is real gold or not. Ever since, a generalized term for "verified" or "approved/tested".
*Acid Test (Liquidity Ratio), a ratio used to determine the liquidity of a business entity
*Project MKULTRA, a CIA mind-control and chemical interrogation research program, involving the surreptitious use of many drugs such as LSD
*Acid Test (band), a Canadian alternative rock band
*ACID-TEST, a Japanese band headed by singer Kazutoshi Sakurai
*The Acid Tests, parties conducted by the Merry Pranksters
*"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", a novel by Tom Wolfe
*"The Acid Test", a short story by Ian Rankin
*"The Acid Test", a science quiz from 1994-7 on BBC Five Live hosted by Kate Bellingham
*A method in petrology that uses acid to test rock or soil for carbonates
*Acid1, Acid2 and Acid3 test-suites for web-browsers
*Testing databases for ACID-compliance

ee also

*Litmus test (chemistry), a common pH test
*Acid (disambiguation)


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