CORROSIVE
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Cor*ro"sive (k?r-r?"s?v), a. [Cf. F. corrosif.] 1. 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.” Thomson.
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2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
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Care is no cure, but corrosive.
Shak.
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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.
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Cor*ro"sive, n. 1. That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
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[Corrosives] act either directly, by chemically destroying the part, or indirectly by causing inflammation and gangrene.
Dunglison.
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2. That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
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Such speeches . . . are grievous corrosives.
Hooker.
-- Cor*ro"sive*ly, adv. -- Cor*ro"sive*ness, n.
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