Corrosion engineering

Corrosion engineering

The process of applying engineering science in the design and manufacturing of materials, structures and devices to manage and control corrosion.

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grain

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

An individual crystal in a polycrystalline metal or alloy; it may or may not contain twinned regions and subgrains; a portion of a solid metal (usually a fraction of an inch in size), in which the ...

potentiostat

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

An instrument for automatically maintaining an electrode in an electrolyte at a constant potential or controlled potentials with respect to a suitable reference electrode.

galvanometer

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

An instrument for indicating or measuring a small electric current by means of a mechanical motion derived from electromagnetic or electrodynamic forces produced by the current.

ammeter

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

An instrument for measuring the magnitude of electric current flow.

anion

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

An ion or radical which is attracted to the anode because of the negative charge. See also cation and ion.

caustic embrittlement

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

An obsolete historical term denoting a form of stress-corrosion cracking most frequently encountered in carbon steels or iron-chromium-nickel alloys that are exposed to concentrated hydroxide ...