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US
/kɝˈoʊsɪv/
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[ UK /kəɹˈəʊsɪv/ ]
[ UK /kəɹˈəʊsɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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spitefully sarcastic
corrosive cristism - of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
NOUN
- a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali)
How To Use corrosive In A Sentence
- Although Jameson is clear-eyed about the corrosive effects of modernity, his methodology nevertheless seemed to require his allegiance to secularization and to convergence theories of modernization; moreover, the acuity and insight of the readings produced by this methodology served to justify that faith a posteriori. Introduction
- The scientific revolution also had its corrosive impact on a literal interpretation of the Bible. Times, Sunday Times
- High-speed impellers for pumping corrosive gases in certain industrial processes are aluminum weldments.
- Stronger cleaners such as oven or drain cleaners also contain corrosive substances, which will kill and remove tissue cells.
- There is a further corrosive effect of this mania for judging people on what they are, not what they do. Times, Sunday Times
- That is an enormous range of substances and, as has already been pointed out, it includes explosives, corrosives, oxidising agents, reducing agents, caustic agents, and acidic agents - the works.
- And I believe that when corrosive sublimate is slow in taking hold, alternate dressings of peroxide of hydrogen are just the thing. Chapter 15
- The spider manages to make its fiber at body temperature, without high pressures, heat, or corrosive acids.
- The subchloride of mercury, calomel, is the great British specific; the protochloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, kills like arsenic, but no chemist could have told us it would be so. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
- Its corrosive impact is particularly striking in the health sector. Times, Sunday Times