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Definition of Corrosives
1. corrosive [n] - See also: corrosive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrosives
Literary usage of Corrosives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... and to tb? uard and obstinate with legal corrosives ; and since the relish of
all is not the same, ho is to apply to the vulgar with plain familiar ..."
2. Memoranda on poisons by Thomas Hawkes Tanner (1907)
"THE first division of the Corrosives consists of the strong mineral acids.
In this chapter we have to review the effects and properties of the acids ..."
3. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"PHENOMENA COMMON TO LOCAL IRRITANTS, Corrosives AND ASTRINGENTS Uniformity of
Irritant Phenomena.—The local actions of drugs are, as a rule, ..."
4. A Manual of pathology by Joseph Coats (1903)
"Inflammations, including catarrh and effects of corrosives and poisons. IV.
Simple perforating ulcer—Characters ; Effects and modes of origin. ..."
5. A Text-book of Pharmacology and Some Allied Sciences (therapeutics, Materia by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1901)
"IRRITANTS, Corrosives, AND ASTRINGENTS. (A) GENERAL PHENOMENA. THE symptoms
produced by poisons and drugs after their absorption present a great variety, ..."
6. Experimental Pharmacology by Hugh McGuigan (1919)
"ACIDS, ALKALIES AND Corrosives. Experiment I.—Prepare an animal for blood-pressure
and respiration tracings. Insert a cannula in the femoral vein for ..."
7. A Manual of Instruction in the Principles of Prompt Aid to the Injured by Alvah Hunt Doty (1914)
"Great destruction of the tissues with which they come in contact follows the use
of the corrosives. ..."
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