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Other contemporary perspectives include "Corrode," about a woman who becomes strangely obsessed with a statue of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, and "The Error Attack," focused on four boys falsely accused of terrorism.
A World of Film, A City of Screens Steve Dollar 2011
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Corrode: to eat away gradually, as by rust or decay.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Glass also has an abundance of pores in it, since there are several liquors, that with long staying in a Glass, will so _Corrode_ and eat into it, as at last, to make it pervious to the liquor it contain'd, of which I have seen very many Instances.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Spirit, the better to free it both from Oyle and Phlegme, I cast into this Rectify'd Liquor a convenient Quantity of Powder'd Coral, expecting that the Acid part of the Liquor would Corrode the Coral, and being associated with it would be so retain'd by it, that the other part of the Liquor, which was not of an acid Nature, nor fit to fasten upon the Corals, would be permitted to ascend alone.
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Corrode the Copper, and uniting themselves with it do strangely alter and Disguise its Metallick Form, and compose with it a new kind of
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Corrode some of the Metals themselves; yet this Corrosive Sublimate being twice or thrice re-sublim'd with a full proportion of insipid
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Informe you, That though they seem to be nothing else but Fluid Salts, yet they abound in Water, as you may Observe, if either you Entangle, and so Fix their Saline Part, by making them Corrode some idoneous
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Govt Says Chinese Drywall May Corrode Pipes, Wires
CBS 11 / TXA 21 - Dallas / Fort Worth's Source for Breaking News, Weather, and Sports 2009
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Govt Says Chinese Drywall May Corrode Pipes, Wires
CBS 11 / TXA 21 - Dallas / Fort Worth's Source for Breaking News, Weather, and Sports 2009
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