In our environment, there exists many forms of corrosion although they do eventually causing the same thing, which is making useful product becoming defective product (i.e-a nail becomes rusty and looses its function or purpose). Recognising what type of corrosion they are is quite useful as this will allow us to control the corrosion in a more structured way due to specific type of corrosion behaves in specific parameters.
In general, corrosion can be categorised into 5 types, which are as followed:
The examples and details for each type of corrosion will be written in several separate posts.
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