Difference between Destructive and Caustic

DESTRUCTIVE vs CAUSTIC: NOUN

One who or that which destroys; one who favors the destruction of anything for some ulterior purpose, as progress or public convenience; an overthrower of existing institutions, customs, or the like.
One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.

Caustic soda
The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
Any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue
A caustic curve or caustic surface.
Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
The enveloping surface formed by light rays reflecting or refracting from a curved surface, especially one with spherical aberration.
A caustic material or substance.
A hydroxide of a light metal.

Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to
See Distillation.
A process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum.
Causing destruction; damaging.
Causing break down or disassembly.
Designed or tending to disprove or discredit.
Causing destruction or much damage
Causing or wreaking destruction; ruinous.

Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
Harsh or corrosive in tone
Sarcastic or cutting; biting.
Given to making caustic remarks.
Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, sarcastic
A surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.
Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.
Nitrate of silver, lunar caustic.
Severe; satirical; sharp.
A curve to which the ray of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane.
See under Lime.
The solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same.

In logic, refuting; disproving: as, a destructive dilemma.
Causing destruction; having a tendency to destroy or the quality of destroying; ruinous; mischievous; pernicious; hurtful: with of or to before an object: as, a destructive fire; a destructive disposition; intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.

The curved surface to which all the rays of a conical pencil of light entering a refractive medium are tangential.
Capable of burning, corroding, or destroying the tissue of animal substances. See causticity.
Figuratively, severely critical or sarcastic; cutting: as, a caustic remark.
The envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object

Blasting, Obscurant, Caustic, Negative, Obliterating, Vitriolic, Cataclysmic, Annihilating, Ravaging, Wasteful, Erosive, Ruinous, Corrosive, Devastating, Damaging

Acerb, Erosive, Destructive, Blistering, Sulphurous, Unpleasant, Virulent, Acid, Bitter, Sulfurous, Acrid, Venomous, Corrosive, Vitriolic, Acerbic

Blasting, Obscurant, Caustic, Negative, Obliterating, Vitriolic, Cataclysmic, Annihilating, Ravaging, Wasteful, Erosive, Ruinous, Corrosive, Devastating, Damaging

Acerb, Erosive, Destructive, Blistering, Sulphurous, Unpleasant, Virulent, Acid, Bitter, Sulfurous, Acrid, Venomous, Corrosive, Vitriolic, Acerbic

More of a downer is the destructive contrast.
It can be destructive and hostile as well.
This view of autism was obviously very destructive.
Our policies are crazily extravagant and very destructive.
What destructive elements of this environment have been caused by humans, and what destructive elements have been caused by nature?
Adhesion Properties of Coatings, Factors Affecting Adhesive Bond, Thermodynamics of Adhesion, Destructive Methods, Non Destructive Methods.
Analyzing portions of the data, Golfin discovered the importance of previous destructive behaviors as a common factor associated with further destructive behaviors, including suicide.
Terms of its destructive capabilities its destructive capabilities saw his relationship to the family in which were.
Users will not create or release computer viruses or engage in other destructive or potentially destructive programming activities.
Peak overloads which occur frequently may be cumulatively destructive, whileapt to be destructive.

These could be toxic, corrosive, caustic or flammable.
My favorite are the dust and caustic caverns.
Do not use caustic drain openers and cleaners.
Celerier M, Extensive abdominal surgery after caustic ingestion.
What are the health effects of caustic soda?
He was also famous for his caustic wit.
The bulk bag will be lifted, by the caustic hoist, to the bulk bag splitter mounted above the caustic mixing tank.
The cocoanut oil is first saponified with the caustic soda and then the caustic potash is added with constant stirring.
The superferritics are resistant in caustic evaporators, but their performance is probably strongly influenced by oxidizing contaminants in the caustic.
There is an older domestic conversion which uses a mixture of molten caustic soda and caustic potash.