Corrosive

a.	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.
	2.	Having the quality of fretting or vexing. Care is no cure, but corrosive. - Shak. 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.
n.	1.	That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually. [Corrosives] act either directly, by chemically destroying the part, or indirectly by causing inflammation and gangrene. - Dunglison.
	2.	That which has the power of fretting or irritating. Such speeches . . . are grievous corrosives. - Hooker.

Noun	1.	corrosive - a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali)
Adj.	1.	corrosive - of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action Synonyms: caustic, erosive, vitriolic

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