What is "corrosives"

Usage examples of "corrosives".

But in this case, both softeners and corrosives have one impossible drawback: you can't use them underwater.

Subsequent flung bottles of alcohol or corrosives were snatched out of the air and set gently down or, if they were flaming, doused in the pool.

But I’m wondering about corrosives that might cause leaks or impair air quality.

Weak acids and other corrosives are precisely what the skin is there for.

The voluntary means proceed from outward causes, as by making of corrosives, and applying the same to the more fleshy parts of their bodies, and also laying of ratsbane, spearwort, crowfoot, and such like unto their whole members, thereby to raise pitiful and odious sores, and move the hearts of the goers-by such places where they lie, to yearn at their misery, and thereupon bestow large alms upon them.