corrosives

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synonyms for corrosives

On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to corrosives, such as: acrimony, causticity, corrosive, corrosivity, mordacity, and mordancy.

How to use corrosives in a sentence

People using corrosives, actual cauteries and many intolerable applications put their patients to more pain than the disease did.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) | Charles Creighton
But they were corrosives and caustics dropped blazing hot upon white men's bare hands and black men's bare feet.
John March, Southerner | George W. Cable
It was the eating through of men's spirits by that worst of corrosives, idleness.
The Mystery | Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

We often find that lemon-juice, vinegar, oil of vitriol and other sharp corrosives, stain dyed garments.
Our Deportment | John H. Young
There were the commoner corrosives—nitric, hydrochloric, phosphoric, and sulphuric acid.
The Status Civilization | Robert Sheckley

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