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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corrosion \Cor*ro"sion\ (k?r-r?"zh?n), n. [LL. corrosio: cf. F. corrosion. See Corrode.] The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.
Corrosion is a particular species of dissolution of
bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum.
--John
Quincy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Middle French corrosion or directly from Latin corrosionem (nominative corrosio), noun of action from past participle stem of corrodere (see corrode).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of corroding or the condition so produced. 2 A substance (such as rust) so formed. 3 (context chemistry English) erosion by chemical action, especially oxidation. 4 (context by extension English) The gradual destruction or undermining of something.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Corrosion is a natural process, which converts a refined metal to a more stable form, such as its oxide, hydroxide, or sulfide. It is the gradual destruction of materials (usually metals) by chemical and/or electrochemical reaction with their environment. Corrosion engineering is the field dedicated to controlling and stopping corrosion.
In the most common use of the word, this means electrochemical oxidation of metal in reaction with an oxidant such as oxygen or sulfur. Rusting, the formation of iron oxides, is a well-known example of electrochemical corrosion. This type of damage typically produces oxide(s) or salt(s) of the original metal, and results in a distinctive orange colouration. Corrosion can also occur in materials other than metals, such as ceramics or polymers, although in this context, the term "degradation" is more common. Corrosion degrades the useful properties of materials and structures including strength, appearance and permeability to liquids and gases.
Many structural alloys corrode merely from exposure to moisture in air, but the process can be strongly affected by exposure to certain substances. Corrosion can be concentrated locally to form a pit or crack, or it can extend across a wide area more or less uniformly corroding the surface. Because corrosion is a diffusion-controlled process, it occurs on exposed surfaces. As a result, methods to reduce the activity of the exposed surface, such as passivation and chromate conversion, can increase a material's corrosion resistance. However, some corrosion mechanisms are less visible and less predictable.
Corrosion is an album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 1988.
Usage examples of "corrosion".
This is pressure stamped under vacuum to produce ingots, which are electroplated with iridium to prevent corrosion and then warehoused.
The results indicated that certain components of both satellites had acquired a kind of resistance to the catalytic corrosion, and in a way so narrowly defined, so specific, that one could speak of an immunological reaction by analogy to living organisms and microbes.
During teardown, we found a lot of corrosion, so the paper on the overseas overhauls was probably faked.
There were times when her freckles were not sunny but like corrosion or rust.
The handle and hinges were dark stains of corrosion on the wood and windblown soil obscured the bottom edge of the door.
Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security.
They were waist-deep in the engine compartment, checking out the belts and the radiator, which was miraculously free of the corrosion and the green gunk that is the residue of years of antifreeze, checking out the generator and the tight, gleaming pistons socketed in their valves.
There was a corrosiveness to it he must guard against constantly, yet for all his wariness, the corrosion tasted sweet, as well.
Metal crystallizes, dissimilar metals react to each other, corrosion eats on everything… Entropy in a closed system increases over time - that's the second law of thermodynamics.
Exploitation had left nothing but sourness and acid rains which, even as he watched, came to add more corrosion to the thick pane and the metal in which it was set.
They appeared to ignore the corrosion and the constantly running bilge pumps that strained to carry off the heavy leakage during the voyage.
They idled in neutral, making soft sucking noises because there was excess grease on the connecting rods, from the rotary bearings, which had been packed at the Earth shipyard to protect against corrosion.
Corrosion involved ferrous oxide, or rust, and its reaction to open air.
The battery was an old Allstate, and the terminals were so glooped up with green corrosion that you couldn't tell which was positive and which was negative.
The steel side and bottom plating, rough and pitted through nearly a century of corrosion, was ground down to the smooth texture of an optical lens.