Corrosion
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- Like death and taxes, corrosion is something we hope to avoid; but ultimately it is something we must learn to deal with.
- Chloride stress corrosion is a type of intergranular corrosion and occurs in austenitic stainless steel under tensile stress in the presence of oxygen, chloride ions, and high temperature.
- Corrosion is an electrochemical process in which a metal reacts with its environment to form an oxide or other compound.
- This explains why corrosion is often limited to only one portion of the metal case.
- Galvanic Corrosion Galvanic corrosion is an electrochemical action of two dissimilar metals in the presence of an electrolyte and an electron conductive path.
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