Both Uses of
corrosive
in
The Da Vinci Code
- He could taste the familiar tang of museum air—an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon—the product of industrial, coal-filter dehumidifiers that ran around the clock to counteract the corrosive carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors.
Chpt 4 *corrosive = damaging or harmful
- The stylus wrote in a noncorrosive, alcohol-based fluorescent ink that was visible only under black light.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(corrosive) damaging or harmful -- such as when describing a strong acid or bad behavior
or (more rarely):
something causing damage or harm -- such as a strong acid