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Example sentences for "corrosive"

Lexicographically close words:
corrode; corroded; corrodes; corroding; corrosion; corrosives; corrt; corrugated; corrugation; corrugations
  1. Where the disease is spreading, good results are obtained by spraying the affected surface with a weak solution of corrosive sublimate in ether, or painting the borders of the affected area with contractile collodion.

  2. It is easily killed by boiling, and can be destroyed by carbolic acid and by corrosive sublimate.

  3. In an infected wound, they are washed out with a stream of corrosive sublimate solution.

  4. The application of dressings, wet with corrosive sublimate, or other chemical solutions to the unbroken skin over inflamed areas, is a fallacy.

  5. Of these, corrosive sublimate is the most generally used.

  6. As cannot be too strongly stated, in mixing, the liquid should be stirred with a clean wooden stick, the acid being added to the water slowly; the latter is corrosive and will painfully burn the flesh.

  7. Uniformly good results have been obtained by impregnation with corrosive sublimate, involving simply immersion in the liquid from ten to fourteen days.

  8. In buildings where the conduit is not liable to corrosive action.

  9. Rubber insulation should always be used where the wire is in a damp place, such as a cellar, and either weather proof or rubber insulation may be used to protect it against corrosive vapors.

  10. Perforation is accomplished with rotary drills, or by a sandblast, or on occasion by corrosive acids--a final resource in treating refractory stone.

  11. Special kinds of this glass in chemical uses are attacked by cold or hot corrosive liquids only one-twelfth to one-fourth as much as good Bohemian glass, the next best material.

  12. In chemical works it raises liquids so corrosive that no other lifter is feasible.

  13. The eyes and cheeks are red with the corrosive tears, and the ichor of some herpetic eruptions erodes far and wide the contiguous parts, and is pungently salt to the taste, as some patients have informed me.

  14. Bismuth trichloride, BiCl3, was obtained by Robert Boyle by heating the metal with corrosive sublimate.

  15. When this change was first adopted by the bleachers, there was the same outcry against its corrosive effects as arose when chlorine was substituted for crofting.

  16. Dissolve the corrosive sublimate in three ounces of the orange-flower water, add the hydrochloric acid, and set aside.

  17. Dissolve the negrosine in a quart of hot water; dissolve the corrosive sublimate and dextrine in the remaining quart, and pour all together.

  18. Stenosis may be caused by diphtheria or other fevers, syphilis, the presence of a foreign body, or the inhalation of corrosive acids or chemical fumes.

  19. But the doctors called on to examine the body declared that she had been poisoned with corrosive sublimate and opium.

  20. Item, a folded paper containing two drachms of corrosive sublimate powdered.

  21. But the doctors again declared the presence of corrosive sublimate and opium.

  22. The term is much abused and is frequently understood to mean resistance to the cutting action of flue gases and flame, the corrosive action of slags, and the strains set up by the repeated changes in temperature.

  23. They are, therefore, used in the manufacture of vessels for holding corrosive liquids such as acids and other chemicals, for sanitary appliances, sewerage pipes and in many other instances where an impervious material is required.

  24. Other characteristics of importance in some industries are the resistance to corrosive action of slags and vapours, to cutting and abrasion by dust in flue-gases or by the implements used in cleaning the fires.

  25. Dissolve one ounce corrosive sublimate in one pint strong spirits.

  26. She was filled with overpowering fear of herself, overpowering desire that it should not be, that other burning, corrosive self.

  27. She took him in the kiss, hard her kiss seized upon him, hard and fierce and burning corrosive as the moonlight.

  28. All the blood in his body went black and powerful and corrosive as he heard her.

  29. She did not want his bitter-corrosive love, she did not want it poured into her, to burn her.

  30. But from his body through her hands came the bitter-corrosive shock of his passion upon her, destroying her in blossom.

  31. I just caught a glance of her inflexible countenance this morning in passing the parlour door; and methought I could perceive the demon aspect of suspicion again spreading his corrosive murky hue over her furrowed front.

  32. Corrosive sublimate, mixed well with sugar, has proved a mortal poison to them, and is the most effectual way of destroying these insects.

  33. The corrosive action of the acid which the ink contains is expended on the iron so introduced, and will not therefore affect the pen.

  34. Mix flour and water, with a little brown sugar, and a very small quantity of corrosive sublimate in powder, and boil it until sufficiently thick and smooth.

  35. Denotes the inside to be pure gold, but the outer part of the colour of silver and a corrosive underneath, which, if taken away, would leave it mere gold, and this the adepts affirm of mercury.

  36. Denotes half gold, whose inside, if turned outward, would make it entire gold, as having nothing foreign or corrosive in it; which the alchemists observe of silver.

  37. The corrosive sublimate is occasionally used for mange in the dog, and to destroy vermin; but it is a very uncertain and dangerous medicine.

  38. One method is dipping the potatoes in a solution of corrosive sublimate.

  39. One is dipping in a solution of corrosive sublimate.

  40. For the preservation of composite samples of milk for analytical purposes, such as the Babcock test, strong disinfectants, as corrosive sublimate, are employed.

  41. It can be used as a solution (one to five per cent) for the washing of woodwork, or for the treatment of any object, since it has no corrosive action.

  42. Corrosive sublimate is the most efficient disinfectant under ordinary conditions.

  43. Corrosive sublimate not only stops all bacterial growth, but quickly destroys the life of the cells.

  44. It is much more powerful in its action than sulphur, and has a great advantage over corrosive sublimate and other strong disinfectants in that it is not so poisonous to animals as it is to bacteria and fungi.

  45. The lip-salve, made up from my own prescription with corrosive sublimate by a venal chemist in the vicinity?

  46. Corrosive sublimate, being a deadly poison, will prevent the attack of bookworms or other insects, but for the same reason must only be used by responsible people, and paste in which it is used must be kept out of the way of domestic animals.

  47. Probably if corrosive sublimate were put in the glue and paste used it would stop their attacks.

  48. Paste made with alum will keep about a fortnight, but can be kept longer by the addition of corrosive sublimate in the proportion of one part of corrosive sublimate to a thousand parts of paste.

  49. Corrosive water and sal ammoniac will dissolve the gold.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corrosive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acid; acidulous; acrid; acrimonious; angry; baleful; baneful; biting; bitter; brand; caustic; corrosive; corrupting; cutting; damaging; deadly; decomposable; decomposing; deleterious; detrimental; dilapidated; disadvantageous; discontented; disintegrating; disjunctive; disruptive; distressing; driving; effective; forceful; forcible; harmful; hurtful; imperative; impressive; incisive; injurious; keen; lethal; malevolent; malign; malignant; mischievous; moldering; mordant; nervous; noisome; noxious; ominous; penetrating; pernicious; piercing; poignant; poisonous; powerful; prejudicial; radium; ravaged; resolvent; ruinous; sarcastic; sardonic; scathing; scorching; sensational; sharp; sinewy; slashing; solvent; stabbing; stinging; striking; strong; tart; telling; toxic; trenchant; venomous; vicious; vigorous; virulent; vital; withering; worn