| The casting had gone perfectly and the virgin silver, until now untouched by corroding air or water, gleamed like moonlight. |
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| There's no denying the ugliness of much of the surrounding neighborhood, with its filthy streets and corroding industrial buildings. |
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| Maintenance is required to stop rainwater getting into the structure and corroding the steel framework of the tower. |
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| The exception is in strongly reducing environments in which titanium is severely corroding and not readily passivated. |
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| In fact, consumerism has spread like an epidemic, corroding the civic fabric of our society. |
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| The project became fully operational in May and the rate at which the parts were corroding they may have to be replaced very soon. |
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| So politics have failed to deliver the uplift of leadership demanded by a new and corroding imbalance in social justice. |
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| So you had all the high sodium content of the concrete corroding the steel. |
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| So, the last film was about a young stripper who desperately wanted to escape the business that was slowly corroding his soul. |
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| One is that the euro crisis is an acid corroding the support for mainstream parties. |
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| To link so tightly doing good to immediate material reward can end up corroding community spirit. |
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| It told the stories of four lives, quietly reverberating and corroding after the cataclysms of Europe's 20th century. |
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| The old brackets which were of ordinary steel were corroding and damaging the stone. |
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| Storage in an aggressive atmosphere or in corroding media as well as under high air humidity is not permitted. |
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| Otherwise, cool the containers by spraying with water to prevent them from bursting or corroding. |
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| The cost of appeasement The appeasement of a regime which despises our values and principles is corroding those very principles themselves. |
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| High temperature corrosion can proceed only if the corroding deposit is in the liquid phase and the liquid is in direct contact with the metal. |
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| This operation reduces the risk of metals corroding, insulates them electrically, and encourages paint to adhere to the treated surface. |
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| All types of liquids or moisture can contain minerals capable of corroding electronic circuits. |
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| These bacteria can lead to significant problems causing unpleasant odors, corroding plumbing equipment, and clogging well screens and pipes. |
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| They are now corroding and not doing the job they were intended to do. |
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| Stars, lies and propaganda have become the stock in trade of public life, distorting reality, unhinging trust in institutions and corroding confidence. |
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| It is not only increasingly making the governance of the country impossible, but is increasingly corroding the moral infrastructure of our society itself. |
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| Oxygen is an extremely reactive chemical, corroding metals, rusting iron, and fueling fires. |
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| It was a sobering view of how drug policies were corroding trust in the criminal-justice system. |
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| These are not the timeworn echoes of a disillusioned Elie Wiesel or the corroding bitterness of an afflicted Wdowinski. |
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| Iron cramps and bars intended to strengthen it were also corroding and fracturing the stone. |
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| These wrist watches also benefit from the fact that titanium is a strong and hypoallergenic metal, and is not prone to corroding. |
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| While these fuels are safety stored, monitoring and inspection have shown that some of the fuel containers and fuels are corroding. |
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| The mixed potential, spontaneously established by the corroding metal, is obtained by equating expressions for the anodic and cathodic currents of the two processes in the corrosion couple. |
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| Furthermore, with chemical pretreatment methods, such as corroding in chromosulfuric acid or caustic soda solution, you can also obtain optimal results. |
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| During the last 20 years, the Sun has fried some satellites and damaged others, given us some radio blackouts and power outages, is quietly corroding pipelines and cables, and is a contributor to global climate change. |
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| This project will see the replacement of the currently corroding concrete sewer main and services, as well as rehabilitating areas with root intrusion and defects. |
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| This modification was made at the request of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Ltd. after several reports from Convair 340 and 440 operators of the bushing corroding and seizing inside the lever. |
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| In particular, the braking device shall be so designed, constructed and fitted as to be able to resist the corroding and ageing phenomena to which it is exposed. |
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| Corrodant, adj. corrodant, having the power of corroding or wasting by degrees, corrosive. |
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| Upon arrival, aircraft are washed to remove corroding salt, drained of fuel and lubricated with a light viscous oil. |
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| When they start corroding they can contaminate membranes. |
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| The company's systems prevent the product from coagulating, breaking down, corroding or from being susceptible to mould or bacterial growth as a result of absorbed moisture. |
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| On one occasion the victim withdraw pounds 30,000 to pay for repair work to drains after it was falsely claimed she had corroding lead pipes, said Mr Warner. |
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| The threads may gall if overtightened or have been corroding in salty air, so a liberal coating of lanolin or a heavy grease is not out of place on any and all threads. |
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