Corrodant vs Corrodentampflash - What's the difference?
corrodant | corrodentampflash |
Corrodentampflash has no English definition.
(label)
* 1833 , William Cobbett, A New French and English Dictionary, in Two Parts , Part I: French and English,
(label) A corrosive ; a corrodent.
* 1835 , Thomas Greene Fessenden (editor), The New England Farmer XIII, ? 5,
Corrodentampflash is often a misspelling of corrodant.
Corrodentampflash has no English definition.
As an adjective corrodant
is {{l/en|corrodent}}, {{l/en|corrosive}.As a noun corrodant
is a corrosive {{l/en|agent}}; a corrodent.corrodant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 104:
- Corrodant, adj.'' corrodant , having the power of corroding ''or wasting by degrees, corrosive.
Noun
(en noun)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.
