erosive

Example Sentences

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In many industries, wear-resistant coatings are used to protect a structure from erosive wear.

From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023

When the flows are high, they become fire hoses, channeling the energy and erosive force of the river downstream.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023

Someone needed to take another look at the bipedal tracks at Site A. But those same seasonal rains that gift us fossil bones and footprints also have the erosive power to take them away.

From Scientific American • Nov. 5, 2022

"Having worked with lithium, I can tell you there is nothing safe about it," she noted of the highly caustic and erosive metal.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2022

But whatever the effect of the erosive effect of ice action upon the total amount of relief, the effect upon the contours was to make them more gentle.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.