the.com/corrosion
Metal slowly losing an argument it didn't know it was having with oxygen.
means The gradual eating-away of a material, usually metal, through a chemical reaction with its environment — most commonly oxygen and moisture.
from From Latin corrodere, 'to gnaw to pieces' — from com- (intensifying prefix) plus rodere, 'to gnaw,' the same root that gives us 'rodent.' The Romans used it for anything being chewed, worn, or eaten away bit by bit. English borrowed the word in the late Middle Ages, and it settled into its modern chemical sense as people started needing a precise term for rust quietly devouring iron.
- annual cost
- corrosion costs the world over 2 trillion dollars yearly
- statue of liberty
- her copper skin corroded green, not painted
- titanic twist
- rusticles ate the wreck faster than scientists expected
- invisible culprit
- rust is literally iron oxide, iron losing electrons