What Does Corrosive Mean?

The word ' corrosive' is an adjective and is used in chemistry to refer to acids, since they have the ability to corrode or eat away anything that comes in contact with them. However, the adjective may also be used in general to refer to something destructive or something that has a negative impact on something. For instance:
'His joblessness had a corrosive effect on their marriage'.
It is also used to refer to something that is extremely sarcastic or caustic:
'The critics' corrosive comments on his work discouraged him to write again.'

It means that it can hurt all in side you body and out side it can damage tissue and it can  damage skin cells .

Corrosive can causes attacks and destroys living tissues,including eyes and skin very dangerous.

We use the word corrosive to convey the property of a substance that is related with the idea of the slow destruction. Anything that is corrosive tends to destroy an object in gradual manner. The substance could be anything whether it is salt or acid. We all know that when salt water constantly cascade on something, it is gradually destroying the object. We can say that salt is corrosive substance.

The word has some figurative uses also and if an idea has damaging effect on something we can use the term corrosive over there. Given here is a sentence that can illustrate the term well: Unemployment has a corrosive effect on a nation's economy. In the abovementioned sentence the concept of unemployment is taking the economy backward therefore the term has been used.