Crossword clues for corrosive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corrosive \Cor*ro"sive\, n.
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That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
[Corrosives] act either directly, by chemically destroying the part, or indirectly by causing inflammation and gangrene.
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That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
Such speeches . . . are grievous corrosives.
--Hooker. -- Cor*ro"sive*ly, adv. -- Cor*ro"sive*ness, n.
Corrosive \Cor*ro"sive\ (k?r-r?"s?v), a. [Cf. F. corrosif.]
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. ``Corrosive liquors.''
--Grew. ``Corrosive famine.''
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Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
Care is no cure, but corrosive.
--Shak.Corrosive sublimate (Chem.), mercuric chloride, HgCl2; so called because obtained by sublimation, and because of its harsh irritating action on the body tissue. Usually it is in the form of a heavy, transparent, crystalline substance, easily soluble, and of an acrid, burning taste. It is a virulent poison, a powerful antiseptic, and an excellent antisyphilitic; called also mercuric bichloride. It is to be carefully distinguished from calomel, the mild chloride of mercury.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French corrosif (13c.), from corroder (see corrode).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid. 2 Having the quality of fretting or vexing. 3 destroying or undermining something gradually n. 1 That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually. 2 Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.
WordNet
Usage examples of "corrosive".
If mercury is found, the contents of the stomach may be dialyzed, the resulting clear fluid concentrated and shaken with ether, which has the power of taking corrosive sublimate up, and thus separating it from arsenic and other metallic poisons.
Suppose no mercury is found in the dialyzed fluid, owing to the fact that corrosive sublimate enters into insoluble compounds with albumin, fibrin, mucous membrane, gluten, tannic acid, etc.
Was the roof of the shack robust enough to withstand the corrosive Endpoint rain?
It is also proposed to test various kinds of insulation and insulators in this laboratory, and to determine the durability of such insulation in the presence of such corrosive gases and water as are found in mines.
The best chemical for this is uranium hexafluoride, which is as poisonous as mustard gas and hideously corrosive to boot.
He washed them down with mug after tin mug of corrosive coffee partly tamed by lots of cream and sugar.
The madwoman who spun with the speed of a silverback cat to fend her off, and clawed at her as they plunged to the floor in a tangle of limbs and corrosive magic.
On December 16, 1989, thousands of people took to the streets of Timisoara to protest his corrosive regime.
For if Jazz had wondered at the seismic or corrosive forces of nature which had created the mountains, what was he to make of the spindly towers of mist-wreathed rock standing to the east: fantastically carven, mile-high aeries that soared like alien sky-scrapers up from the boulder plain in the shadow of the rearing mountains?
Gronke, the pharmacist, has a pharmacy on Neuer Markt that carries everything, corrosive, narcotic, and septic poisons.
Nitrogen and sulfur oxides dominated its atmosphere, and the sand that covered it had been ground and blasted from its crust by eons of corrosive, high-velocity winds.
It depended how resistant to her corrosive poison the polymers of the hardened restraints were.
It was a corrosive experience for him, watching the horror burrowing into their lives, but when he finally had to tell about the cross and the horns of the bull, Priscilla broke into convulsive sobbing, while Aquila seemed on the verge of black despair.
On the hatch's inner surface, safe from reentry friction and corrosive atmospheres, were the painted blazons of her co-owners: the pearl roundel of Governor Halys, and the bright orange banderol—the oriflamme—of Councilor Frederic Duneen.
The Sarlacc's gastric secretions, like a corrosive acid capable of etching unalloyed durasteel, had stripped Boba Fett of his armor, right down to and including a good deal of his skin.