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  2. Passivation (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Passivation involves creation of an outer layer of shield material that is applied as a microcoating, created by chemical reaction with the base material, or allowed to build by spontaneous oxidation in the air. As a technique, passivation is the use of a light coat of a protective material, such as metal oxide, to create a shield against ...

  3. Bronze disease - Wikipedia

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    Bronze disease. Bronze disease is an irreversible and nearly inexorable corrosion process that occurs when chlorides come into contact with bronze or other copper-bearing alloys. [1] It can occur as both a dark green coating, or as a much lighter whitish fuzzy or furry green coating. [1] It is not a bacterial infection, but the result of a ...

  4. National Ambient Air Quality Standards - Wikipedia

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    Contents. National Ambient Air Quality Standards. The U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS, pronounced / ˈnæks / naks) are limits on atmospheric concentration of six pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards. [ 1 ] Established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under authority of the ...

  5. Bronze - Wikipedia

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    Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be harder than copper ...

  6. Anodizing - Wikipedia

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    Anodizing. These carabiners have an anodized aluminium surface that has been dyed; they are made in many colours. Anodizing is an electrolytic passivation process used to increase the thickness of the natural oxide layer on the surface of metal parts. The process is called anodizing because the part to be treated forms the anode electrode of an ...

  7. Aluminium bronze - Wikipedia

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    Aluminium bronze. Aluminium bronze is a type of bronze in which aluminium is the main alloying metal added to copper, in contrast to standard bronze (copper and tin) or brass (copper and zinc). A variety of aluminium bronzes of differing compositions have found industrial use, with most ranging from 5% to 11% aluminium by weight, the remaining ...

  8. Tin - Wikipedia

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    Tin does not occur as the native element but must be extracted from various ores. Cassiterite ( SnO 2 ) is the only commercially important source of tin, although small quantities of tin are recovered from complex sulfides such as stannite , cylindrite , franckeite , canfieldite , and teallite .

  9. Stress corrosion cracking - Wikipedia

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    Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) is the growth of crack formation in a corrosive environment. It can lead to unexpected and sudden failure of normally ductile metal alloys subjected to a tensile stress, especially at elevated temperature. SCC is highly chemically specific in that certain alloys are likely to undergo SCC only when exposed to a ...