corrosive

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  1. adjective Having the capability or tendency to cause corrosion: a corrosive acid.
  2. adjective Gradually destructive; steadily harmful: corrosive anxiety; corrosive increases in prices; a corrosive narcotics trade.
  3. adjective Spitefully sarcastic: corrosive criticism; corrosive wit.
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  • It was gaseous, corrosive, alive; it ate through metal and glass and flesh, like an acid. —  Astounding Stories June, 1935
  • Disbelief vied with a fury that was corrosive, and it was like thunder raging inside him. —  TheMediterraneanMillionaire’sMistress
  • These include product recovery and pollution control technologies for purification of air and liquids; fluid handling technologies for corrosive, abrasive and high temperature liquids; Mefiag filtration technologies for harsh, corrosive liquid filtration applications; and filtration and purification technologies which include proprietary water treatment chemicals and filter products for air and liquid filtration. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • September 10, 2008 - Suited for handling corrosive waste streams, Fuseal® piping system is resistant to corrosive action of alkalis, alcohols, acids, solvents, and salt solutions and will not rust, pit, scale, or be affected by electrolysis. —  ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom - Today's New Product News
  • - July 22, 2008 - GF Piping Systems has announced a re-design of their mechanical joint for the popular Fuseal corrosive waste piping system. —  ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom - Today's New Product News
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  1. = French corrosif = Provencal corroziu, corrossiu = Spanish Portuguese Italian corrosivo, from Middle Latin as if *corrosivus, from Latin corrosus, past participle of corrodere, corrode: see corrode. Cf. corsive.
  2. from corrosive, n.
 

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