Sentences with 'corrosive'
Example sentences and phrases with the word corrosive and other words derived from it.
• « Salt is corrosive to human tissue in large quantities, and exposure meant that a slave would die horribly over time. »
• « The caustic stomach: gastric juice is one of the most corrosive substances known, capable of dissolving even a razor. So much so that the stomach has to produce a new lining of its walls every three days to avoid digesting itself. »
• « From the rim of a volcanic caldera, the landscape is punctured by heat and corrosive rain. But in the distance, like a temple of fireworks, lightning flashes through the sulphur-laden clouds, enveloping us in a permanent rumble. »
• « But photosynthesis released oxygen, a corrosive and poisonous gas hitherto absent from the earth's atmosphere, a new pollutant that literally burned prokaryotes alive. »