What is corrosion?
Corrosion is the degradation of materials properties because of the interactions with their environments. The corrosion of most metals and many other materials for that matter is inevitable. While corrosion is associated primarily with metallic materials, all types of materials are susceptible to degradation. Like taxes and death, corrosion is something we anticipate to avoid; however, it is something that we should learn to deal with. The driving force or the fundamental cause for all corrosion is lowering Gibbs energy of the system. The production of all metals and the engineering components made of metals involves addition of energy Continue reading...