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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

The defence's main argument is that the bridge had a hidden construction defect, namely corrosion of the bridge's cables, and it was this that caused its collapse, not a lack of maintenance.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Those additions, coupled with the long-term degradation from corrosion, ultimately caused the collapse four decades after construction.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

The confinement structure is temporarily patched, and Ukraine seeks $580 million for repairs to prevent irreversible corrosion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Over in the production group at ATK, a whole different division, they sometimes had trouble with a machine that inspected the booster rockets’ O-ring grooves to make sure there was no corrosion.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

More graceful in its architecture than the arena, the theater yielded more readily to the vandalisms of the conquerors and the corrosions of time.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine

The corrosions produced in this way have quite a dark appearance on the plate, but they produce much lighter tints in printing.

From A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne




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