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Corrosive vs Diatonic - What's the difference?

corrosive | diatonic |

As adjectives the difference between corrosive and diatonic

is that corrosive is eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid while diatonic is (music) within the boundaries of a musical scale, most commonly the western major or minor tonalities that have octaves of seven notes in a particular configuration.

As a noun corrosive

is that which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.

corrosive

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
  • Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Care is no cure, but corrosive .
  • destroying or undermining something gradually
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
  • Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.
  • diatonic

    English

    Adjective

    (Diatonic and chromatic) (en adjective)
  • (music) Within the boundaries of a musical scale, most commonly the Western major or minor tonalities that have octaves of seven notes in a particular configuration
  • Antonyms

    * chromatic

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