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    Magnesium slows the corrosive effects of salt water on the iron.
    corrosive = causing damage
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    It's a corrosive gas, like fluorine, which is used to etch glass.  (source)
    corrosive = gradually damaging on contact
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    ...the skunk had snapped its rear end up, curved the tail over, and sprayed Brian with a direct shot.... The corrosive spray that hit his face seared into his lungs and eyes, blinding him.  (source)
    corrosive = harmful chemical
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    However, the ground wire couldn't be sunk too deep, either, because the clay layer had a strong corrosive effect, and after a while, it would corrode the middle section of the ground wire.  (source)
    corrosive = damaging or harmful
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    She's responsible for plagues, sickness, and catastrophes; she's immune to fire, radiation, toxins, corrosives, disease, and aging.†  (source)
    corrosives = things (typically chemicals) that cause damage or harm
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    The stylus wrote in a noncorrosive, alcohol-based fluorescent ink that was visible only under black light.†  (source)
    noncorrosive = not damaging or harmful
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncorrosive means not and reverses the meaning of corrosive. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    Dorothea accused herself of some meanness in this timidity: it was always odious to her to have any small fears or contrivances about her actions, but at this moment she was seeking the highest aid possible that she might not dread the corrosiveness of Celia's pretty carnally minded prose.†  (source)
    corrosiveness = the property of creating damage or harm
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    He was a small, skinny, clean-shaven man, and so ugly—caustically, one could almost say corrosively, ugly—that the cousins were astonished.†  (source)
    corrosively = in a manner that causes damage or harm
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    Disappointment was as dark and corrosive in her as the Black Thing.  (source)
    corrosive = damaging or harmful
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    I imagined she would have already hosed us down with acid if she weren't worried about the long-term effects of corrosives on her larvae.†  (source)
    corrosives = things (typically chemicals) that cause damage or harm
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    STEPHEN: (Panting) His noncorrosive sublimate!†  (source)
    noncorrosive = not damaging or harmful
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    He started thinking about the properties of wood and the corrosiveness of salt water.†  (source)
    corrosiveness = the property of creating damage or harm
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    Also the fuel is corrosive, to the internal tanks, so we had to drain it.  (source)
    corrosive = damaging or harmful
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