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Erosion vs Corrosive - What's the difference?

erosion | corrosive |

As nouns the difference between erosion and corrosive

is that erosion is erosion while corrosive is that which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.

As an adjective corrosive is

eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.

erosion

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) The result of having been being worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
  • * 2012 , (George Monbiot), (Guardian Weekly) , August 24, p.20
  • Even second-generation in the ground.
  • (uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
  • (uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
  • (mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in (morphological image processing) from which all other morphological operations are derived.
  • (dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
  • (medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
  • Derived terms

    * erosive * erosional * sheet erosion * splash erosion

    corrosive

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
  • Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Care is no cure, but corrosive .
  • destroying or undermining something gradually
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
  • Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.