Corrosive
[kə'rəʊsɪv] or [kə'rosɪv]
Definition
(noun.) a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali).
(adj.) spitefully sarcastic; 'corrosive cristism' .
Checked by Benita--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid.
(a.) Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
(n.) That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
(n.) That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
Edited by Kelsey
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Corroding, consuming, eroding, erosive, catheretic, caustic, acrid, virulent, eating away.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CORRODE]
Typist: Martha
Examples
- He had not known how hurt he was, how his tissue, the very tissue of his brain was damaged by the corrosive flood of death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Dissolve the corrosive sublimate in three ounces of the orange-flower water, add the hydrochloric acid, and set aside. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- They discovered many new substances, such as alcohol,[334] potash, nitrate of silver, corrosive sublimate, and nitric and sulphuric acid. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The second bath is prepared by mixing 2-1/2 parts of corrosive sublimate with 100 parts of water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Corrosive Sublimate Bi-Chloride of Mercury. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It also possesses a remarkable resistance to corrosive acids and for this reason is the preferred material for tanks and vats in wineries, breweries, chemical works, mines, tanneries, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- No, she added, in a softer tone; God mingles something of the balm of mercy even in vials of the most corrosive woe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Entire absence of corrosive fumes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was in the dark-room, where I had a lot of chloride of sulphur, a very corrosive liquid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Dissolve the negrosine in a quart of hot water; dissolve the corrosive sublimate and dextrine in the remaining quart, and pour all together. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Objects, such as furniture, which cannot be boiled, are disinfected by the use of any one of several chemicals, such as sulphur, carbolic acid, chloride of lime, corrosive sublimate, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Into her he poured all his pent-up darkness and corrosive death, and he was whole again. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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