corrosive action

Corrosichnia: traces that are left by plant roots as a result of their corrosive action on the sediments.

In lead it improves strength and durability and decreases the corrosive action of sulfuric acid.

Carstairs had entered an old warehouse, its name and trade long obliterated by time and the corrosive action of the London atmosphere.

Finally, boosting himself as high as he could, he reached for a cavity formed by the corrosive action of the berry juice.

As a result of the corrosive action of the sea waves, some of the walls are now under the waters of the Adriatic.

In the jungle fighting on various Pacific islands cleaning was sometimes lax and the excessive moisture compounded the corrosive action of the residue.

The engine received a new electronic control unit (ECU) supplied by Bosch and ethanol's corrosive action resistant internal components.

Our cannon must be possessed of great tenacity, great hardness, be infusible by heat, indissoluble, and inoxidable by the corrosive action of acids."

After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall.

Corrosion products that accumulated at the faying surfaces of the dissimilar metals raised the stresses in some instances enough, with the combined corrosive action, to cause cracks to form in the strips.

Some investigators and independent experts in metallurgy say that the next best source of evidence - distinctive microscopic marks etched on metal wreckage - may have been obliterated by the corrosive action of salt water.

The actual attack on the metal is by the corrosive action of the water to which it is exposed while the erosive factor is the mechanical removal of the corrosion product from the surface.

It became evident that iron fastenings could not be used in wood treated with corrosive sublimate, on account of the corrosive action, and it was said that the wood became brittle.

The clay in the sediment at Coon Creek sealed off the fragile fossils from the corrosive action of water and the hard parts of the clams, snails, crabs, and shrimps were well preserved.

Owing to the highly corrosive action of the acid, only the salts of dichloroacetic acid are used therapeutically, including its sodium and potassium salts, sodium dichloroacetate and potassium dichloroacetate.

In order for Rule 3 potential to have stopped Speedy where it did, there must be an appreciable amount of carbon monoxide in the metal-vapor atmosphere-and there must be an appreciable corrosive action therefore.

And still rust ate from the outside, and from the inside the corrosive action of the water itself slowly bored outward to meet the rust pits, piercing pinprick after pinprick in the tough skin of steel.

Deprived, as it was, of a covering of air to act as a protective shield, the moon found itself exposed right from the start to a continual bombardment of meteorites and to the corrosive action of the sun's rays.

Scientific analysis of samples from the panels revealed that a soluble salt had crept under the surface of the gilding, causing a corrosive action that Mr. Radke described as an "electric charge" between the gold and the bronze underneath.

Neat sulphuric, H2SO4 at specific gravity 1800 - vitriol, if you like - is a highly corrosive agent when applied to most substances, which is why it is usually carried in glass carboys which are immune to the corrosive action of acids.

And fully partaking his stupefaction, if not his joy, I read on the eastern side of the huge block of stone, the same characters, half eaten away by the corrosive action of time, the name, to me a thousand times accursed- (See illustration.)

Concerns about the corrosive action of caesium on spacecraft components have pushed development in the direction of use of inert gas propellants such as xenon; this is easier to handle in ground-based tests and has less potential to interfere with the spacecraft.

A stamped coin would probably corrode more quickly than a cast coin, he said, because the heavy impact of the stamp stresses the microstructure significantly, making it more prone to corrosive action than a globule of metal allowed to cool gently in a mold.

"By running a low current through electrical strips placed over the reinforced concrete, we can prevent this corrosive action," said Herbert Rothman, a principal at Weidlinger Associate Consulting Engineers, which has installed a cathodic protection system in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.

This previously unwanted recycled product is used in the manufacture of high performance concretes, especially those used in the construction of bridges and coastal features, where its low permeability and greater resistance to chlorides and sulfates can help to reduce corrosive action and deterioration of the structure..