Chapter 16
Environmental Degradation of Materials: A Cost to Society
Learning Objectives
After careful study of this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
1. Describe how the environment that normally supports our life on Earth can degrade materials used in engineering.
2. Describe the role of oxidation-reduction reactions in the corrosion of metals, including what it is that makes these electrochemical in nature.
3. Explain the operation of electrochemical cells or galvanic couples on the basis of half-cell reactions and potentials and overall reactions and cell potentials, including how to determine cell potential and overall reaction spontaneity.
4. Describe the nine different forms corrosion can take, including one caused ...
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