corrosion
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A 2025 Nature Reviews Materials review described direct seawater electrolysis as promising but still held back by corrosion, side reactions, metal precipitates, and limited lifetime.
From Science Daily • May 10, 2026
Some had been there so long that corrosion was destroying them.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
The DOJ claims that DC Water failed to repair the 54-mile pipe, known as the Potomac Interceptor, despite inspections that found corrosion years earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Operator Perenco said the cause was microbial corrosion in a buried pipeline.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
The mechanism of Harrison's chronometer could withstand the turbulent motion of a ship at sea, defy changes of temperature, and resist the corrosion of salt water and air.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing corrosion
Song for a Whale
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Unit 3, Academic Vocabulary
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