electrolytic action

I've seen it happen in home waters when they've had electrical defects-you get electrolytic action sometimes.

Any salts in the water tend to have an electrolytic action - they act as a kind of glue to stick the whole structure together.

This caused a weak electrolytic action that eroded the copper nails which held the wooden hulls together.

Gases are produced by oxidation, vaporization, insulation decomposition, oil breakdown and electrolytic action.

The decomposition of water by electrolytic action was recognized and made the basis of communicating at a distance even before the days of the electromagnet.

To prevent corrosion due to electrolytic action all fixings to the roof structure have been electrically isolated from the aluminium castings with plastic washers etc.

Smilarly, electrolytic action may also be caused by installing bare-sheath MICC cables on new oak.

However, because of the problem of electrolytic action in salt water (also known as Galvanic corrosion), in shipbuilding monel must be carefully insulated from other metals such as steel.

In 1824 to reduce the impact of this destructive electrolytic action on ships hulls, their fastenings and underwater equipment, the Victorian scientist-engineer Sir Humphry Davy, developed the first and still most widely used marine electrolysis protection system.

However, where MICC cables with a bare copper sheath are installed in damp locations, particularly where lime mortar has been used, the water and lime combine to create an electrolytic action with the bare copper.