corrosive

Converse of object

• become: Check that water destined for re-use is not contaminated so that it becomes corrosive or causes excessive build-up of scale.

Adjective modifier

• non: The loops which pass through the padlock of your chastity device are fashioned with brass ferrules and are non corrosive.
• other: Aqua regia and other corrosives have been used by entertainers for many years.

Modifies a noun

• sublimate: Formaldehyde proved safer and less troublesome than corrosive sublimate, chlorine gas or sulfur dioxide.
• cynicism: You do not have to look far to see this kind of corrosive cynicism at hand.
• liquid: Also rinse out any bottles which contained flammable or corrosive liquids.
• substance: The warts are treated by freezing or burning them off with corrosive substances.
• chemical: The relevant interaction of corrosive chemicals takes place inside opaque reactor vessels.
• fluid: They included 34 attacks on vehicles, 30 involving corrosive fluid.

Modifying Another Word

• socially: People particularly socialists have always thought that inequality was socially corrosive.
• highly: It reacts with moisture to form hydrogen fluoride, a highly corrosive acid.
• extremely: Chemical cleaners, such as beer line cleaners, can be extremely corrosive.
• very: Copper radiator - alloy head - cast iron block - make for a very corrosive mixture!
• so: He delights that Charles finds his pessimism so corrosive of his own hopes.
• mildly: This concentration would damage clothing, shoes, and rubber goods, and is mildly corrosive to steel surfaces.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: In the long run, however, they can prove even more corrosive, for they undermine cultural certainties and challenge long-held taboos.
• become: In time, this becomes corrosive to private morality.

Preposition: of

• culture: Why do you say the Net is corrosive of culture?