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Definition: Corrosion |
CorrosionNoun1. A state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action. 2. Erosion by chemical action. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corrosion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | The deterioration of a metal by chemical or electrochemical reaction with its environment. (references) |
Archeological | An electrochemical process involving gradual destruction of an object, usually metals, through change in the object's material(s). (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The gradual oxidation of the metallic lead to lead dioxide in the grid of the positive plate. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | The dissolution and wearing away of metal caused by a chemical reaction such as between water and the pipes, chemicals touching a metal surface, or contact between two metals. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Deterioration of a metal by the natural process which reverts the metal to a state of lower free energy, such as an oxide. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Chemical attack of the surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Irreversible destruction of skin tissue. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | The gradual destruction of a metal by chemical action. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A process of erosion whereby rocks and soil are removed or worn away by natural chemical processes, esp. by the solvent action of running water, but also by other reactions such as hydrolysis, hydration, carbonation, and oxidation. Syn:chemical erosion b. A term formerly used interchangeably with corrasion for the erosion of land or rock, including both mechanical and chemical processes. The mechanical part is now properly restricted to corrasion and the chemical to corrosion. Verb: corrode. (references) |
Public Administration | Deterioration, destruction and weakening of any material due to chemical, electrochemical, physical and mechanical interactions with its environment. Not to be taken to mean rust only. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Corrosion is the reaction of a metal with another material. These reactions are usually with very low PH or acidic materials such as sulphuric acid or reactions with high ph or basic materials such as sodium hydroxide.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Corrosion."
Synonyms: CorrosionSynonyms: corroding (n), erosion (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion, erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus, atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement; (destruction).; aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron; vinefretter, vinegrub. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Tuesday's plastic corrosion awareness meeting was a big success (Toy Story; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | This Corrosion (2003) | |
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 | Figure 31. Timtschenko water bottle, inspired by the Wille bottle, and built by the instrument maker Iosif A. Timtschenko for sampling waters of the Black Sea and analyzing for dissolved hydrogen sulfide content. This instrument was built in 1891 and used by Joseph B. Spindler in his studies of the Black Sea. The interior was of gold to resist corrosion. Left: descending. Right: ascending. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | A C-130 aircraft from the 36th Airlift Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Japan, undergoes a complete interior and exterior inspection at the 374th Maintenance Squadron/Refurbishment Flight there. The aircraft is being inspected for corrosion, deteriorating parts. |
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Business | However after learning the name of the chemical that protects the pipes from corrosion, Taiwan firms can import the chemical and make the needed pipes for their customers. (references) | |
This new coating, platinum aluminide, provides greatly enhanced hot corrosion protection and can increase blade life by up to three times when compared to standard coatings. (references) | ||
The Chinese government has included chemical fiber carpets resistant to corrosion, fire, wear, mold contamination and static electricity, on their list of items that either are unavailable in China in large enough quantities or high enough quality. (references) | ||
Economic History | Pakistan | Most promising subsectors and estimated market size for 2001 are: Oil Recovery and Process Equipment ($55 million); Drilling Equipment for Oil & Gas ($25 million); Separation plant: Oil & Gas ($17 million); Pipeline Equipment ($10 million); Pipeline Corrosion Control ($5 million); Pipeline Construction Equipment ($5 million). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Corrosion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Corrosion" is used about 250 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 250 | 18,796 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Nakabotec Corrosion Protecting Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "corrosion": algal corrosion ♦ Corrosion Casting ♦ corrosion potential Ec ♦ corrosion resisting cast steel ♦ corrosion test ♦ fretting corrosion ♦ pinpoint corrosion. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "corrosion": corrosion-control, corrosion-inhibitor, corrosion-proof, corrosion-proofer, corrosion-proofing, corrosion-resistance, corrosion-resistant, corrosion-resisting. | |
Ending with "corrosion": anti-corrosion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "corrosion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | korrozion, gërryerje (abrasion, caries, chew, denudation, depreciation, detrition, erosion, weathering), brejtje (crunch, edacity, gnawing, nibble, qualm). (various references) | |
Arabic | تحات (corrode, erode, erosion), تأكسد (oxidation, oxidize), تآكل (abrasion, attrition, corrode, erode, erosion, gnaw, wear out), صدأ (corrode, oxidize, rust, rustiness), أكسدة (oxidation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ръжда (red rust, rust), корозия. (various references) | |
Chinese | 腐蚀 (ablate, ablated, Corrode, Corroded, Corroding, Decadent, Erode, Eroded, Eroding). (various references) | |
Czech | rozežírání, koroze. (various references) | |
Danish | tæring (cachectic tabes, infantile atrophy, marasmus), korrosion, ætsning (engrave, etching). (various references) | |
Dutch | corrosio, corrosie (pitting), roestvorming. (various references) | |
Farsi | فسادتدریجی (Erosion), تحلیل (Analysis, Erosion, Resolution), زنگ زدگی (Stain). (various references) | |
Finnish | korroosio. (various references) | |
French | corrosion (corrosive). (various references) | |
German | Korrosion (attack, degradation, destruction, deterioration). (various references) | |
Greek | διάβρωση (erosion). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אכול מתכות, אבזקת, רקבון (corruption, decay, moldiness, putrefaction, putrescence, rankness, rot, rottenness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rozsdásodás (rusting). (various references) | |
Indonesian | korosi, karatan. (various references) | |
Italian | corrosione (attack, degradation, destruction, deterioration, discharging, erosion, scour, seizing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 腐蝕 , 腐食 , 浸蝕 (erosion), 浸食 (erosion). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し"しょく (bed and food, eating and sleeping, erosion, infringement, mind and composure, Shinto priest, violation), ふしょく (establishment, support). (various references) | |
Korean | 부식 (Erosion, rusting). (various references) | |
Manx | gangreil (festering), farbaghey (flame up, fret, inflame, irritate), craiughey (canker, corrode, rasp, wasting). (various references) | |
Norwegian | rust (rust), korrosjon. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orrosioncay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | corrosão (fret). (various references) | |
Romanian | coroziune. (various references) | |
Russian | коррозия (staining). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zarđalost, rđa (rust), korozija. (various references) | |
Spanish | corrosión (erosion, rust). (various references) | |
Swedish | sönderfrätande, korrosion, anfrätning. (various references) | |
Turkish | yıpranma (abrasion, attrition, fraying, frazzle, wear), paslanma (becoming rusty, oxidation, rust, rustiness), korozyon, bozulma (breach, breakdown, breakup, confusion, corruption, decay, declension, decomposition, deformation, degeneration, degradation, derogation, deterioration, devolution, disfiguration, disfigurement, disruption, dissolution, impairment, infection, pollution, putrefaction, rancidity, rancidness, rottenness, shipwreck, spoilage, taint, undoing, upset), aşınma (abrasion, amortization, attrition, detrital, detrition, dilapidation, erosion, fret, wear), aşındırma (abrasion, attrition, denudation, erosion). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | іржавіння (oxidizing), корозія, окислення (acidification, burning, combustion, oxidation, oxidizing). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự gặm mòn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corrosion": corrosions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "corrosion": anticorrosion. (additional references) | |
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"Corrosion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carbosin, Corofin, corosion, corossion, Corradino, corrodian, corrotion, corsino, croesian, Korresia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "corrosion" (pronounced kerō"zhun) |
| 4 | -ō" zh u n | erosion, explosion, implosion. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, allusion, aspersion, aversion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, conversion, decision, delusion, derision, diffusion, disillusion, dispersion, diversion, division, envision, equation, evasion, excision, exclusion, excursion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, immersion, incision, inclusion, incursion, indecision, infusion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, lesion, misprision, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, perversion, precision, preclusion, profusion, provision, recision, rescission, reversion, revision, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, supervision, television, transfusion, version, vision. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-n-o-o-o-r-r-s" | |
-3 letters: croons, orcins, orison. | |
-4 letters: cions, coins, coirs, coons, corns, croon, icons, irons, noirs, noris, orcin, ornis, orris, rosin, scion, scorn, sonic. | |
-5 letters: cion, coin, coir, coni, cons, coon, coos, corn, cors, cris, icon, inro, ions, iron, noir, nori, orcs, rins, rocs, soon, sori, sorn. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-n-o-o-o-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: corrosions. | |
+3 letters: coordinators, corporations, noncorrosive. | |
+4 letters: anticorrosion, coconspirator, incorporators, noncorrodings. | |
+5 letters: chromoproteins, coconspirators, corroborations, corticosterone, corticotropins, hydrocortisone, incorporations, prognosticator, seroconversion. | |
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