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corrosion

[kuh-roh-zhuhn] / kəˈroʊ ʒən /


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Rather than concentrating primarily on how alloys resist corrosion under ordinary conditions, Huang's group has focused on developing materials that remain stable at much higher electrical potentials.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Stainless steel has been used for roughly a century and has become one of the most important materials for applications where corrosion is a concern.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Congress established the National Academies in 1863 to advise on science—e.g., fixing the weights and measures of currency and methods for protecting ship hulls from saltwater corrosion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

It does have some more engineering problems than copper, including poorer conductivity, corrosion, and brittleness.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

Ever since the Hunley was placed in this tank, researchers and scientists have been painstakingly cleaning a century-and-a-half of sand, sediment, corrosion, and encrustation from the world’s first successful combat submarine.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Genre-bending authors are often well-suited to making sense of the daily horrors and subtle corrosions.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2026

Now, for all the corrosions of inflation, food prices and property taxes, money seems a bit looser.

From Time Magazine Archive

All religions have changed and suffered secular corrosions, despite signs of revival in recent years.

From Time Magazine Archive

The secret corrosions of the ship-worm will sink a fleet.

From Government and Rebellion by E. E. Adams

A prey incessantly to such corrosions, might not, moreover, as the worst aggravation to them, the iron constitution even of a Teufelsdrockh threaten to fail?

From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Thomas Carlyle




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