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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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dendrite

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

A crystal that has a treelike branching pattern, being most evident in cast metals, slowly cooled through the solidification range.

hygroscopic

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

(1) Possessing a marked ability to accelerate the condensation of water vapor; applied to condensation nuclei composed of salts that yield aqueous solutions of a very low equilibrium vapor pressure ...

hydrolysis

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

(1) Decomposition or alteration of a chemical substance by water. (2) In aqueous solutions of electrolytes, the reactions of cations with water to produce a weak base or of anions to produce a weak ...

parts per billion

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

A measure of proportion by weight, equivalent to one unit weight of a material per billion (10 9 ) unit weights of compound. One part per billion is equivalent to 1 mg/kg.

transition metal

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

A metal in which the available electron energy levels are occupied in such away that the d-band contains less than its maximum number of ten electrons per atom, for example, iron, cobalt, nickel, and ...

annealing

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

A generic term denoting a treatment. consisting of heating to and holding at a suitable temperature, followed by cooling at a suitable rate, used primarily to soften metallic materials, but also to ...

activity

Materials science; Corrosion engineering

A measure of the chemical potential of a substance, where chemical potential is not equal to concentration, that allows mathematical relations equivalent to those for ideal systems to be used to ...

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