inoxidable

Updated: October 21, 2025

On the discussion being renewed, "Gentlemen," said Barbicane, "we must now take into consideration the metal to be employed. Our cannon must be possessed of great tenacity, great hardness, be infusible by heat, indissoluble, and inoxidable by the corrosive action of acids."

Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon