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corrodant

corrodant adjective: corrodent, corrosive.

Adjective

corrodant (comparative more corrodant, superlative most corrodant)

  1. (rare) corrodent, 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

Noun

corrodant (plural corrodants)

  1. (rare) A corrosive agent; a corrodent.
    • 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...1835, Thomas Greene Fessenden, editor, The New England Farmer, XIII, № 5, page 37/3

Forms of corrodant

Adjective
comparativemore corrodant
superlativemost corrodant
Noun
pluralcorrodants

Questions about corrodant

What does corrodant mean?
Corrodant means corrodent, corrosive.
What part of speech is corrodant?
Corrodant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near corrodant in the dictionary

  1. corroboree frogs
  2. corroborees
  3. corrobories
  4. corrobory
  5. corrodable
  6. corrodant
  7. corrodants
  8. corrode
  9. corroded
  10. corrodent
  11. corrodents

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