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What is Corrosion?

Corrosion is something that we can see every day, for example whenwalking on the street, driving the car or cooking the lunch...

The most common and most known form of corrosion, or better the results of acorrosion process, is the Red Rust that affect iron (in pictures below you can seesome good examples of rust on steel).All metals, each with different corrosion velocity and morphology of attack, corrodeand develop oxides of different colors.Copper for example develops the typical Green oxides, Silver a black patina of oxides( the process of Corrosion on Silver is called also tarnishing).

Corrosion of Steel. You can see the red rust on a painted steelstructure.

Corrosion is a process that is mostly associated with Metals but the basic principlesapplies also to Non-Metallic materials like Glass, Plastic...

Corrosion of a steel rebar in concrete. Even concrete can be a corrosiveenvironments for Steel.

Corrosion Definition

Corrosion of Metals

can be defined as the destructive attack of ametal through interaction with its environment

Corrosion Types

Corrosion is usually classified into eight different types or forms basedon the different morphology of attack.Uniform or General1.Pitting2.Galvanic or Bimetallic Corrosion (also called Dissimilar Corrosion)3.Crevice4.Intergranular5.Erosion-Corrosion