Acid causes metal to corrode.

酸使金属腐蚀。

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And sulfates are known to corrode metals.

已知硫酸和硫酸盐能腐蚀金属。

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What legacy of land and soul is destined to corrode?

灵魂与国土那注定被腐蚀的遗物究竟是什么？

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As a faith-based creed, populism always tended to corrode respect for elite achievement, individualism, urban life, secularism, and capitalism.

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But many are anxious about chemicals--acids to dissolve minerals and create cracks, surfactants to make fluids more slippery, agents to prevent bacteria that corrode pipes.

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Although a real threat exists, to let security trump liberty in every case would corrode the civilised world's sense of what it is and wants to be.

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