Being harsh or corrosive in tone.
Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action.
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Examples for "corrosive "
Examples for "corrosive "
1 Local corrosive injury is the major focus of treatment in severe cases.
2 His screenplays frequently delved into the corrosive influences of wealth and power.
3 One method is dipping the potatoes in a solution of corrosive sublimate.
4 The company is testing specialized materials that can resist those corrosive effects.
5 But the doctors again declared the presence of corrosive sublimate and opium.
1 The dyes fixed with metallic mordant vary in their composition and properties.
2 Preparation or mordant for eight dresses, silk and wool mixed, for black.
3 The voice of the Bassett cut in on these mordant reflections:
4 Wool is generally boiled in a weak solution of whatever mordant is used.
5 Isabella opposed the scheme vehemently and unwisely, with mordant sarcasm and unjust reproaches.
1 Anti-CCP antibodies were also associated with erosive disease in RF-negative RA patients.
2 This is a fragile area with erosive soil and rare plants.
3 Our results suggest an association between erosive LP and HCV infection.
4 A major erosive weather phenomenon such as a planetwide flood could do it.
5 Thirty-metre-high hard-rock columns that had resisted the erosive power of wind and wave.
1 Your effort to be caustic is the sweetest thing in the world.
2 The lunar caustic was applied in half an hour after the accident.
3 We shall therefore in this place describe the manufacture of caustic soda.
4 The action of lime is greatest in its caustic or unslacked form.
5 The caustic Junius and other writers took this side of the question.
6 Its chemical products include Ionic membrane caustic soda, chloralkali salt and others.
7 Every one tried to outdo the other in saying caustic , spiteful things.
8 By the caustic sentence of Mr. Stevens it had been totally overthrown.
9 The single word was caustic enough to melt holes in the floor.
10 In most of the experiments it was convenient to use caustic potash.
11 In his public utterances he was more emphatic, more caustic of tongue.
12 Gas hissed as flesh melted on contact with the highly caustic fluid.
13 It was accompanied by a hefty, caustic book of the same name.
14 By boiling vegetable fibers with caustic lyes, Collier and Piette obtained cellulose.
15 I recognized some spurges that let their caustic , purgative sap trickle out.
16 Stanistreet was at a loss to understand the old fellow's caustic tone.
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