Such changes are so rapid and on so vast a scale, and the corroding power of the current on the bank so irresistible, that in Lower Bengal it is considered perilous to build any structure of a large or permanent character on its margin.
This attitude of indifference to real knowledge passed in the younger and less reputable generation into a corroding moral scepticism which recognized no good but pleasure and no right but might.
The use of soft water entails a disadvantage of another character - that of corroding iron and lead work, soft water exercising a very vigorous chemical action FIG.
They were not painted to imitate plaster, instead they were sealed with a clear coat in order to prevent the tin from corroding.
Additionally, the sulfur and sulfide emissions seem to be corroding the copper air conditioning coils as well as pipes and wiring in electrical appliances.