corrosion
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Once this happens, the surface can enter a form of degradation known as transpassive corrosion.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Its resistance to corrosion decreases when the electrical potential becomes sufficiently high.
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
Did we repeat the experiment, we should instead inoculate in the leg, which, being further removed from the pneumatic, electrico-aetherial, and hydraulico- vascular machinery, is less likely to lead to internal corrosion and fatality, viz.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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
Yes, he was an optimist and a dreamer!—one who had, indeed, never grappled in his own person with the worst poisons and corrosions of the soul.
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward
“And after all they’re nothing in the world but indentations and corrosions on the crust of a planet, that is one in millions.”
From Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Gertrude Page
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Unit 3, Academic Vocabulary
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