How To Use Corrode In A Sentence

The cannon was placed in a large waterproof crate of fresh water to leach out the salts, which, if untreated, would have eventually corroded the metal.
He has devised a process for making gold wires which neither corrode nor oxidise.
This kind of undisciplined thought, or rather feeling, that mistakes a wish for a fact and leads to foolish policy decisions corrodes the soul of modern man.
It's steel, so it doesn't fatigue, rust or corrode.
Higher levels of pollution have started to corrode pipes.

In many cases, quartz overgrowths were preferentially corroded and dissolved in the presence of pyrophyllite, most likely during acidic metasomatism.
The raven body it used had to be fresh, for such a spirit would corrode the flesh of whatever it inhabited within a day. ABHORSEN
Neither were they warned that they would quickly lose their traditions, or that recollections would corrode and leave them without memories. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Last week Gunter, now director of the Reactor Oversight Program of the organization Beyond Nuclear, said the NRC re-licensing program is "blind to how these machines are breaking apart at the molecular level … they embrittle, crack and corrode. CounterPunch
When those rust inhibitors lose their effectiveness, the inside of the radiator can start to corrode.
As to the brown colour, a number of critics, such as WicklowLass cited below, argue that foot detox machines are simply AC-DC transformers attached to ferrous electrodes that corrode to generate rust when used to electrolyse the saline water in the footbath. Dodgy detox
For we offer, besides ourselves, a position that has not grown old under the weight of a gigantic, parasitic bureaucracy, a position untempered by the doctoral dissertations of a generation of Ph.D. s in social architecture, unattenuated by a thousand vulgar promises to a thousand different pressure groups, uncorroded by a cynical contempt for human freedom. Buckley Athwart History
Neither were they warned that they would quickly lose their traditions, or that recollections would corrode and leave them without memories. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Eventually they will become so distracted, and their relationships will be so corroded by duplicity and miscommunication, that they will simply give up and die out.
The metal has corroded because of rust.
Neither flammable or easily corroded, it had the advantage that any tarnish could be easily polished off, keeping the graduations highly visible.
Scaring the people to death works, but it also corrodes the public commons.
Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence. A Renegade History of the United States
Copper corrodes at negligible rates in unpolluted air, water, and deaerated nonoxidizing acids.
It was caked and corroded with rust, worn almost paper-thin, but he knew it for what it was -- a spur-rowel, unmistakably Spanish with its long cruel points. People of the Dark
All explosives remain dangerous in sea water, as the metal casing corrodes and explosives become unstable.
Now, after 40 years of damaging pedestrians and vehicles as the tiny tiles became unstuck, and allowing water to corrode the concrete's steel reinforcement, the building's owner has decided to act.
Freshly chiseled ornaments stand proudly next to the corroded precursors that served as models, testimony to the endless repair, the incessant renewal of the church.
Jesus taught meekness and meekness is despised as a vice; he taught the superiority of the spiritual over the material world, and we have society built on the assumption that might makes right; he taught love and the world is corroded with hate; and our admiration goes out to those who can make others serve them; he taught poverty, and the very church which he founded has grown rich on the fruit of sweat shops and prostitution. Aleta Dey
The microgranite has a felsitic groundmass containing microphenocrysts of albite and orthoclase along with phenocrysts of corroded quartz and sporadic dihedral garnet.
Corruption has corroded our confidence in the police force.
Engineers found the structure had been corroded by moisture.
Corruption corrodes public confidence in a political system.
And this is not all: corroded by the acetous acid, they are full of small holes, particularly in the cap, where all the vapors collect themselves, as in a reservoir. The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain
Acid rain destroys trees and corrodes buildings.
Galvanized iron and copper screen were used in the past but these materials corrode over a period of time and should be replaced before they discolor the window frames and walls.
Not only was the boiler unserviceable, but the pipes and radiators were severely corroded and would not last another winter.
Neither were they warned that they would quickly lose their traditions, or that recollections would corrode and leave them without memories. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
A chemical reaction will cause salt to corrode silver over time, so emptying a silver saltshaker should be one of your after-dinner cleanup duties.
The beams of prestressed concrete were found to be in relatively good condition, but more than 20 percent of the steel beams were corroded or damaged.
Water can corrode metals given enough time, and time it will have.
There was no damp to corrode metal, Akbar realized, and fine gold does not oxydize anyway. KARA KUSH
Readers reminded us that gold, which does not tarnish or corrode, is used in contacts and connectors in telephones, computers, and other electronic products.
Certain chemicals will corrode if left on bare metal.
Taking 20 aspirin is just plain dumb, though not as dumb as douching with Coca-Cola - this stuff can corrode metal and you wanna squirt it where?
The growing Cavity Wall Tie Service provides a comprehensive system of inspection and replacement of corroded wall ties.
He has devised a process for making gold wires which neither corrode nor oxidise.
It must not corrode metal fittings and interact with finish systems.
His armor had protected him from the poison, though the acidic mix had corroded the metal in several places.
There was no damp to corrode metal, Akbar realized, and fine gold does not oxydize anyway. KARA KUSH
The main weakness of steel, as a structural material, is its tendency to corrode.
Rootless plants called lichens often cover and corrode rocks as yet bare of soil; but where lichens are destroying the rock less rapidly than does the weather, they serve in a way as a protection. The Elements of Geology
Their failure to attain status comparable to that of older market-sector professions corrodes' middle class, conservatism.
This art will be usefull in blazoning arms on monuments for inscriptions tables of the decalogue over the altars &c as by this method they will be preserved ages from the injuries of the weather. tho at the same time the stone itself will be somewhat hurt or corroded by the Air. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
A stone fish sting corroded the skin off the sole of the shell collector's own heel, years ago, left the skin smooth and printless. The Shell Collector : Stories
The waiting corrodes the belief that moment A will be followed by a moment B that is recognizably continuous with it. Suspended
In the presence of water and oxygen, steel rebars in bond beams, grouted cells, or collar joints will corrode.
This trend, he argues, corrodes the boundaries between the public and the private - the expression of man's two-sided social existence as stranger and friend.
These were covered in thick dust and cobwebs and were badly corroded.
Losing on certainties corrodes your confidence and makes you bet on horses with longer odds, on the reasonable grounds that you might as well fling your money at long shots rather than at favourites in which you place no faith.
That is hardly a ringing battle cry to the party faithful or an encouragement to the independent voters, and it corrodes his halo as a selfless public servant.
Meanwhile, their continued detention of these two young men, in isolation, in a cramped cell, and without affording them even the process they are due under Iranian law, further corrodes their image around the world. Christian Parenti: Call to Help the Hikers
Neither were they warned that they would quickly lose their traditions, or that recollections would corrode and leave them without memories. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
The drop-off is now causing serious technical problems, as slow-flowing oil drops in temperature and clogs and corrodes the pipe. Alaska's Ebbing Oil
Also, if the carbonation front reaches embedded steel, the steel can corrode.
Before it can be counted the next job will be to clean and separate the cash, as some of the metals have corroded and coins have stuck together.
Given the corrosive nature of money in politics and how it corrodes our democratic foundation, it is important to limit the flow of the special interest spigot or at least create more opportunities for regular people to compete through public financing. Edward Headington: Pledging Allegiance to Reforming Our System: Vote Yes on Measure H
Copper usually originates from highly acidic water, which corrodes copper plumbing.
The rudders have been replaced along with the trim cables, the skin of the airplane has seen detailed attention and fresh paint, and corroded pieces have been removed and replaced.
Both shamefully used social division to their electoral advantage pursuing a governing style which corrodes probity and accountability.
Don't be tempted to use a proprietary descaler, as it may corrode the aluminium. Times, Sunday Times
Steel tends to corrode faster in a salty atmosphere, such as by the sea.
Older students can be assigned to research and discover what it is that is in UV rays that causes them to corrode various materials.
Neither were they warned that they would quickly lose their traditions, or that recollections would corrode and leave them without memories. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Corruption corrodes public confidence in a political system.
There was no damp to corrode metal, Akbar realized, and fine gold does not oxydize anyway. KARA KUSH
He has devised a process for making gold wires which neither corrode nor oxidise.
Boyle went on to characterize acids, noting their sour or tart taste and their ability to corrode metals.
The acid corroded the metal
Even lumps of clay backfill in sandy soil will corrode metal pipes at points of clay contact.
It said the time taken for the sludge to travel the 6km from Southend to Stambridge caused a build-up of hydrogen sulphide and has corroded the equipment in the dewatering plant, as well as presented a health risk to workers there.
This system was later discredited because chemicals added to the concrete corroded the steel used to reinforce it, making it weaker.
Corruption corrodes public confidence in a political system.
Very likely, says the doctor: I have known people eat in a fever; and it is very easily accounted for; because the acidity occasioned by the febrile matter may stimulate the nerves of the diaphragam, and thereby occasion a craving which will not be easily distinguishable from a natural appetite; but the aliment will not be concreted, nor assimilated into chyle, and so will corrode the vascular orifices, and thus will aggravate the febrific symptoms. III. In Which the Surgeon Makes His Second Appearance. Book VIII
That was badly corroded, as was the inside of the brass cylinder itself, obviously from the action of the salt.
There was no damp to corrode metal, Akbar realized, and fine gold does not oxydize anyway. KARA KUSH
And Iraq had bought a couple of hundred thousand of these tubes in the 1980s for rockets, and it didn't anodize them, and they corroded away. CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2003
Impunity corrodes societies and creates hierarchical value systems over the value of human lives.
Aqua regia is basically a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids, and it is one of the few chemical reagents potent enough to corrode gold.
In order to make his flesh colouring easier to paint Buonamico used a ground of _pavonazzo di sale_, as is seen in this work, which in the course of time has caused a saltness by which the white and other colours are corroded and consumed so that it is no marvel that the work is damaged and destroyed, while many that were made long before have been excellently preserved. The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)
Aluminum is highly resistant to weathering, even in industrial atmospheres that often corrode other metals.
His is an impressive collection of rusty coins and nails, corroded bullets and belt buckles, pieces of swords and knives, shards and bits of broken bottles.
The raven body it used had to be fresh, for such a spirit would corrode the flesh of whatever it inhabited within a day. ABHORSEN
Disclosed herein is a treatment method concerning catalysis-cracker gasoline which corrodes copper sheet.
And though he had secured an MOT certificate for it, some of the bodywork was so corroded that the car was a danger to anyone using it and to other road users, a spokesperson for York trading standards said.
It is a reprehensible practice that corrodes our ability to make rational decisions.
Rubber corrodes silver, and it can become so deeply etched that only a silversmith can repair the damage.
But right in front of it is an ad for Bugler's craftsmanship in the form of a building: a box wrapped in colourfully corroded steel, with windows milled from sapele wood. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The fluoric acid, disengaged in the gaseous state, combines with the water that diluted the sulphuric acid, and forms liquid fluoric acid, by which the glass is corroded. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827
Some quartz phenocrysts are very irregular in form, strongly corroded and embayed, others are idiomorphic with bipyramidal habit.
Copper corrodes at negligible rates in unpolluted air, water, and deaerated nonoxidizing acids.
The chassis was bent and everything was badly corroded because it had been left to the mercy of the elements in an open barn.
Residual water left in poorly-maintained ballast tanks during hot, humid conditions could well have either started the corrosion process or made already corroded metal plates even worse.
Platinum is a relatively inactive metal that does not corrode or tarnish in air.
The growing Cavity Wall Tie Service provides a comprehensive system of inspection and replacement of corroded wall ties.
The cupola and the concrete construction were corroded, the masonry was wet, and plaster work was peeling off.
Builders have been hit by a rash of lawsuits from homeowners, who complain that defective drywall, also known as gypsum board, imported from China during the housing boom is generating sulfurous odors, corrodes metal and, in some case, causes health problems. Wallboard Exporter in Settlement With Beazer Over Costly Repairs
Oil drums, drainpipes, corrugated roofs, each a corroded excremental brown. The Forsaken
Before it can be counted the next job will be to clean and separate the cash, as some of the metals have corroded and coins have stuck together.
There was no damp to corrode metal, Akbar realized, and fine gold does not oxydize anyway. KARA KUSH
I have a Ep. III Anakin saber, well the hilt pommel where you put the batteries in corroded and I wanna replace it, does anyone know where i can buy a replacement battery housing? SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6409
Steel tends to corrode faster in a salty atmosphere, such as by the sea.
For example if you choose a balcony made from copper treated pine, steel fixtures can react with the copper and corrode.
The nomos is horribly corroded and encrusted with all sorts of gunk. The present state of affairs is unsatisfactory « Isegoria
The horror you feel at "moral decay" is, to the Elders of Sodom, quite self-evidentally an affective defense mechanism, designed to function as a barrier to anything that might "corrode" your convictions. An Open Letter to John C. Wright
Faucets usually leak because of old gaskets or 0-rings and corroded valve seats.
Said invented washing powddr contains no sodium polyphosphate or trisodium phosphate, so that it not only doesn't corrode washed clothings but also without injure human skin.
While homes covered in other materials can corrode, rot, split, warp, dent, or crack through the years, brick does not.
He suspects superplastic satellite materials will find new applications in space because low-Earth orbits corrode normal plastics.
The microgranite has a felsitic groundmass containing microphenocrysts of albite and orthoclase along with phenocrysts of corroded quartz and sporadic dihedral garnet; zircon and apatite are conspicuous accessory minerals.
It's filthy, the seat belts don't work properly, corroded immutably and for eternity into maximum stretch for vast vodka-filled bellies; and don't even think of pulling down the table in the seat back -- I did, and it had repulsive calcified food remains from the 60s. Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS)
The chemicals - abandoned in the old building - had corroded their metal containers and seeped into a path.
The metal corroded
Bad idea, say the experts, as all the pipes would corrode.
Semiconductor integrated circuit is usually encapsulated in the shell of integrated circuit, in order to protect integrated circuit from being damaged by external machinery and chemistry corrode.
The modelling of all human behaviour on the contractualism and instrumentality of the market corrodes any politics of solidarity and citizenship.
The bore is often pitted and the gas piston is usually corroded.
The raven body it used had to be fresh, for such a spirit would corrode the flesh of whatever it inhabited within a day. ABHORSEN
And metal corrodes over time, just from exposure to the air.
Wandering hands leave acid residues that corrode the marble.
Sweat corrodes metal, so Bond applied an electrical charge and a fine carbon powder to a gun's corroded part, revealing a fingerprint pattern.
The spicules of bone, after alveolated parenchyma had been corroded off, revealed the characteristic coral-like branching and angulated bony spicules of DPO.
If a few extra cents per square foot are spent to upgrade from galvanized steel to stainless steel or aluminum, the metal will not corrode as fast and will last longer.
Patination After long exposure to the air or burial in the ground most materials corrode.
The cupola and the concrete construction were corroded, the masonry was wet, and plaster work was peeling off.
Corrosion Control All materials corrode, which is to say every substance eventually changes from one form to another through chemical reactions. Engineering News | Home
Tangled and corroded metal, red with age rather than by design protruded from the rock walls, and slick metal wallowed forlornly in the water, having finally succumbed to gravity's relentless pull.
Something more than television soaps and radio talk-shows is needed to address deep-seated attitudes, before they corrode our democracy.
In Barbados Mr Ody, master mate of the Arab, was poisoned by eating "a Mangereen apple", causing "severe vomiting and violent convulsions, I poured down a good quantity of sweet oil, applied the warm bath, gave him a calomel purge & the next morning he brought away a considerable quantity of blood and skins of the stomach being corroded by the virulence of the fruit". Amputations, acid gargles and ammonia rubs: Royal Navy surgeons' 1793-1880 journals revealed
The trouble with the fuel cell is that it requires a barrier between the anode and the cathode because the oxidizing and reducing agents will corrode catalytic elements if allowed to intermix.
Their words infuse the air Britain breathes, serving just three press magnates whose pernicious influence corrodes all political discourse.
It also does this by its vulgarity and childishness that corrodes the notion of the seriousness of life and the need for ascesis self-discipline, all of which are fundamental elements that maintain family cohesion and stability. Modesty of Dress and Love of God
Booze and cocaine corroded his sanity and left him with a legacy of irrational behaviour.
Pellerin says that while some salt dust is always floating in the mine's air, the salt air is dry, so it doesn't corrode equipment any faster than normal.
Their failure to attain status comparable to that of older market-sector professions corrodes' middle class, conservatism.
Boyle went on to characterize acids, noting their sour or tart taste and their ability to corrode metals.
The raven body it used had to be fresh, for such a spirit would corrode the flesh of whatever it inhabited within a day. ABHORSEN
The wooden barrel guard was split along half its length and the barrel itself was badly corroded.
The skyscrapers on the west side of Shinjuku station were the same; dark monoliths, corroded to half-height by the fog.
The twisted and corroded metal is situated in the memorial garden.
Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence. A Renegade History of the United States
That too must once have been a corroded unrecognisable lump of metal. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Acid causes metal to corrode.
You may need a hacksaw to get these off if they are corroded.
Its arteries are choked with traffic, lungs corroded by pollutants, throat parched with thirst, and body labouring under a weight its heart cannot sustain.
The silvering of the reverse has been so corroded that no signs of the goddess's galeated head are visible. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
He has devised a process for making gold wires which neither corrode nor oxidise.
Later, we hike into Limestone Gorge, through a corroded landscape of dolomite blocks, bizarre limestone tower karsts, twisted Screw Palms and scorched yellow grasses.
Occasionally the spoil heap outside a badger sett would reveal a piece of bone or a scrap of corroded armour.
Boyle went on to characterize acids, noting their sour or tart taste and their ability to corrode metals.
Plus, xenon happens to be a noble gas, which means it won't corrode or otherwise interact chemically with anything.
Can he somehow persuade us, as he tried again yesterday, to draw a line under the three-year conflict that corrodes every aspect of his premiership, preventing him leading on matters domestic and foreign?
As a by-product, fungi can produce organic acids that will corrode and etch inorganic materials.
The raven body it used had to be fresh, for such a spirit would corrode the flesh of whatever it inhabited within a day. ABHORSEN
The silvering of the reverse has been so corroded that no signs of the goddess’s galeated head are visible. The Land of Midian
Platinum is a relatively inactive metal that does not corrode or tarnish in air.
Acid causes metal to corrode.
Metal is easily corroded, but the skill lies in producing an attractive colour which is even in tone and texture.
Other damage results directly from human actions, from metal fixings that corrode or react with stone, and from inappropriate combinations of different types of stone.
He has devised a process for making gold wires which neither corrode nor oxidise.
Readers reminded us that gold, which does not tarnish or corrode, is used in contacts and connectors in telephones, computers, and other electronic products.
Steel tends to corrode faster in a salty atmosphere, such as by the sea.
In addition, it has corroded the sense of community between the workers, isolating people rather than bringing them together.
And we also know that wars undertaken when they have no clear relation either to a nation's interests or its ideals can corrode the internal life of nations or at least reveal their weaknesses.
Daughtry had inquired into the matter, and the inquiry was violent; for he had a wholesome fear of germs and bacilli, and when the two active young men tried to run him through with their filth-corroded spears, he caught the spear of one young man under his arm and put the other young man to sleep with a left hook to the jaw. CHAPTER III
And of corroding ulcers, those which are phagedaenic, spread and corrode most powerfully, and, in this case, the parts surrounding the sore will have a black and sub-livid appearance. On Ulcers
The metal osmium is very stable in the air, the melting point is 2700 degrees Celsius, it does not dissolve in the ordinary acid, will not be corroded in the aqua regia.
John Bull, that his coin may not corrode for want of circulation; if ever this fellow enters my house again, with his deer-stealing Stratford vagabond under his arm, tie them both up in a hopsack, and throw them into the Thames! The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810
Corroded danburite up to 8 cm in length was abundant around footwall portions of the pocket.
This trend, he argues, corrodes the boundaries between the public and the private - the expression of man's two-sided social existence as stranger and friend.
But ductile iron also corrodes, so there has been a further programme to replace both metals with polyethylene pipework.
Corruption corrodes public confidence in a political system.
The sundial was surrounded by seven figures, all wearing the same, dreary, corroded cloaks, faces hidden under dragging hoods.
Over the years, rain, wind, and sun had corroded the statue, turning the bronze a bright green.
Back in the early days, most hose clamps were steel and corroded readily.
Lack of accountability has corroded public respect for business and political leaders.
The sublime landscape of the American South West is being slowly corroded by a tide of faux Spanish Colonial dream homes and equally banal commercial development.
The one antiquated, rude, corroded, and begrimed in its long conflict with time, and the other bright and vivid, its field and exergue unmarred, its emblems and legends clear and sharp. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Be sure to remove and clean the magazine cap nut, Parcus said; unused over long periods, it often corrodes and becomes impossible to unscrew.
And to suggest that, I think, corrodes the confidence of the people of this country.
His is an impressive collection of rusty coins and nails, corroded bullets and belt buckles, pieces of swords and knives, shards and bits of broken bottles.
Rust has corroded the steel rails.
For another, while steadfastly denying there's a problem with its outdrives, it has issued a service bulletin describing an elaborate protocol of tests to determine why they corrode.
Corruption corrodes public confidence in a political system.
What legacy of land and soul is destined to corrode?
Readers reminded us that gold, which does not tarnish or corrode, is used in contacts and connectors in telephones, computers, and other electronic products.
The unit will not corrode and does not have the sharp beam pattern cut off of modern halogen lights.
The materials that are useful for anodes must be good conductors and must not corrode too easily under oxidizing conditions.
Iron corrodes so quickly that an item may become too hot to touch before cracking into pieces from internal pressure generated by chemical change.
As the steel corrodes into rust, the re-bar expands and splits the concrete open.
As far as my other critics are concerned, the envy seems to have corroded down to hatred.
I stepped back; before I could turn away, all the hideous stages of putrefaction presented themselves in order reversed, like urchins at an almshouse who thrust the youngest of their company to the front: the wrinkled flesh swelled and seethed with maggots, retreated to the lividity of death, and finally resumed the coloration and almost the appearance of life; the flaccid hand closed on the corroded steel hilt of the batardeau until it gripped it like a vise. The Urth of the New Sun
This is the moment and the method to decide whether it will continue to corrode our relations and undermine our ambitions for the indefinite future, or not.
Poor touch hole alignment or excessively corroded touch holes are also sometimes to blame.
Acid rain has corroded the statue.

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