corrodant

comparative more corrodant · superlative most corrodant

1. rarecorrodent, corrosive

   Corrodant, adj. corrodant, having the power of corroding or wasting by degrees, corrosive.

   1833, William Cobbett, A New French and English Dictionary, in Two Parts, Part I: French and English, page 104

plural corrodants

1. rareA corrosive agent; a corrodent.

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   I understand that a complete transmutation takes place in the iron; it gradually becomes incrusted with the copper, whilst at the same time the acids act as a corrodant; so that a piece of iron thrown in, after a certain time, comes out copper, but whether weight for weight, or size for size, I do not recollect.

   1835, Thomas Greene Fessenden, editor, The New England Farmer, XIII, № 5, page 37/3