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  2. Skin effect - Wikipedia

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    The most important effect of skin effect on the impedance of a single wire is the increase of the wire's resistance, and consequent losses. The effective resistance due to a current confined near the surface of a large conductor (much thicker than δ ) can be solved as if the current flowed uniformly through a layer of thickness δ based on the ...

  3. Galvanic corrosion - Wikipedia

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    The electrochemical potential difference between stainless steel and aluminium is in the range of 0.5 to 1.0 V, depending on the exact alloys involved, and can cause considerable corrosion within months under unfavorable conditions. Thousands of failing lights would have to be replaced, at an estimated cost of $54 million.

  4. Galvanic cell - Wikipedia

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    This reduction reaction causes the free electrons throughout the metal B electrode, the wire, and the metal A electrode to be pulled into the metal B electrode. Consequently, electrons are wrestled away from some of the atoms of the metal A electrode, as though the metal B cations were reacting directly with them; those metal A atoms become ...

  5. Cathodic protection - Wikipedia

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    The steel wire in a PCCP pipeline is stressed to the point that any corrosion of the wire can result in failure. An additional problem is that any excessive hydrogen ions as a result of an excessively negative potential can cause hydrogen embrittlement of the wire, also resulting in failure.

  6. Corrosion - Wikipedia

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    Galvanic corrosion of an aluminium plate occurred when the plate was connected to a mild steel structural support.. Galvanic corrosion occurs when two different metals have physical or electrical contact with each other and are immersed in a common electrolyte, or when the same metal is exposed to electrolyte with different concentrations.

  7. Saturation (magnetic) - Wikipedia

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    Seen in some magnetic materials, saturation is the state reached when an increase in applied external magnetic field H cannot increase the magnetization of the material further, so the total magnetic flux density B more or less levels off. (Though, magnetization continues to increase very slowly with the field due to paramagnetism.)

  8. Electronegativity - Wikipedia

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    Electronegativity, symbolized as χ, is the tendency for an atom of a given chemical element to attract shared electrons (or electron density) when forming a chemical bond. [1] An atom's electronegativity is affected by both its atomic number and the distance at which its valence electrons reside from the charged nucleus. The higher the ...

  9. Stress corrosion cracking - Wikipedia

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    Material Selection: Choosing the right material for a specific environment can help prevent SCC. Materials with higher resistance to corrosion and stress corrosion cracking should be used in corrosive environments. For example, using stainless steel instead of carbon steel in a marine environment can reduce the likelihood of SCC. [7]