Corroding in a sentence

Those leaks usually happen because the excavator made a mistake -- not because the pipes are old or corroding.

However, some 8,000 corroding fuel rods associated with the experimental reactor have remained under close surveillance.

Zinc acts as the anode (negative terminus) by slowly corroding away as it passes electric current to the steel pipeline.

Orthophosphate forms scale, which can prevent lead in corroding pipes and fixtures from leaching into water.

Today, the thing that is corroding capitalism, barely rationalised by mainstream economics, is information.

The resulting magnets are non-corroding but brittle and must be treated like other ceramics.

Instead, is more of a character study in the soul-corroding effects of extreme self-regard.

The polished wheels are notorious for corroding once the thin lacquer coating is damaged.

Riders are urinating on escalators which is corroding their drive wheels and mechanisms.

Mr McGrath added: “According to a recent report the bridge is repairable and is there is no imminent danger of it collapsing, but parts are corroding.

It shows a fine fearlessness in assailing the popular and mischievous sentimentalities and attractive and corroding falsehoods which few men dare assail.

Turning to the Government’s priorities, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, said rising town centre and street crime had been “corroding the fabric of our communities”.

Stone decay to spire and corroding squinch beams and cramps which were addressed in 2016 with the assistance of a grant under the National Lottery Heritage Fund Grants for Places of Worship scheme.

The nitrite anion is a mild oxidizer that oxidizes the soluble and mobile ferrous ions (Fe 2+ ) present at the surface of the corroding steel and causes them to precipitate as an insoluble ferric hydroxide (Fe(OH) 3 ).

Intolerance toward those who think differently, even inside the same political space, is corroding the bases of representative democracy, which is the only system we know that allows us to live and grow in freedom, in spite of its flaws.