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Six example sentences with corrosion, each labelled with its topic.
Inspectors found corrosion on the bridge cables where rainwater had collected inside the anchorage for thirty years.
Architecture
Salt air attacks the connector pins, so marine radios use gold plating to hold corrosion off for years.
Technology
Divers raised the cannon in one piece, though corrosion had fused the barrel to a shelf of coral.
History
Corrosion is simply oxidation, and iron combines with oxygen fastest where salt water gives the ions an easy path.
Science
Corrosion costs the economy roughly three percent of output each year in replaced pipes, bridges, and vehicles.
Economics
The sculptor welcomes corrosion on the bronze, since the green patina it produces is the finish collectors prize most.
Art
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