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Corrosion vs Causticity - What's the difference?

corrosion | causticity |

As nouns the difference between corrosion and causticity

is that corrosion is corrosion while causticity is the quality of being physically caustic; burning, corrosive.

corrosion

English

(wikipedia corrosion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of corroding or the condition so produced.
  • A substance (such as rust) so formed.
  • (chemistry) Erosion by chemical action, especially oxidation.
  • (by extension) The gradual destruction or undermining of something.

    • Related terms

    * corrosible ----

    causticity

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being physically caustic; burning, corrosive.
  • (figuratively) Being caustic in speech, humour etc.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 65:
  • *:He had not, he remarked with crushing causticity to one of his ministers, liberated France ‘to worry about the macaroni ration’.