Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Something used to prevent or remedy corrosion.

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  • noun An agent that prevents or stops corrosion.
  • adjective Preventing or counteracting corrosion.

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Examples

  • China already has significant domestic supplies of zinc, which is most often used in anticorrosive coatings for steel.

    Chinese Gather Up Mining Resources Abroad 2009

  • Despite the lower prices, demand from the stainless-steel industry, the main consumer of the anticorrosive metal, hasn't picked up.

    Nickel producers hit at both ends 2008

  • Despite the lower prices, demand from the stainless-steel industry, the main consumer of the anticorrosive metal, hasn't picked up.

    Nickel's Slide 2008

  • Maybe it's the photographs of awkward young men on Monitor's deck, or that pieces of the ship, which went down in a swell off the coast of North Carolina in 1862, are displayed in huge tanks filled with anticorrosive solution like captured aliens in a sci-fi film.

    Museums: Recalling the Ironclads 2004

  • Two anticorrosive products manufactured from tannin have now been developed and patented in Chile and Brazil.

    47. Tannin produced from pine bark 1992

  • Though I fixed the power elements at the cold end of the system, I never really saw them; they were completely hidden in anticorrosive paint.

    The Wind from The Sun Clarke, Arthur C. 1962

  • In anticipation of an aluminum, anticorrosive, 20-year-guarantee metal roof product line set to further bolster B&B's bottom line, Donlan projected $5 million in growth within two years.

    Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal 2010

  • In anticipation of an aluminum, anticorrosive, 20-year-guarantee metal roof product line set to further bolster B&B's bottom line, Donlan projected $5 million in growth within two years.

    National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010

  • * Hexavalent chromium as an anticorrosive of the carbon steel cooling system in absorption refrigerators.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • The report also described anticorrosive treatment on reinforced steel as poor, coming off "even with a mild rubbing with hands."

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

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