corrodant
English
Noun
corrodant (plural corrodants)
- (rare) A corrosive agent; a corrodent.
- 1835, Thomas Greene Fessenden (editor), The New England Farmer XIII, № 5, page 37/3:
- 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:
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