Category:
Journal Reprints
Sub-Category:
Biology / Medicine
Date Published:
July 2006
Keywords:
corrosion, iron rust, microbes, fungus, yeast and mold, red lead-based paint, chemical oxidation, tin plague, it is microorganisms that cause corrosion, Pasteur, bacterial hydrometallurgy
Filename:
Semikov_EngineerJ[trans]_n7(2006)1-10.pdf
Publication:
Engineer Journal
Comments:
Translated to English with Google Translate by Thomas E. Miles
Abstract:
This is often called corrosion, and especially iron rust. Every year, this insidious "affliction" takes away entire hecatombs of its "steel-hardened" victims. But when they call corrosion a “disease”, they do not put a deep meaning into the word - it is nothing more than a beautiful figurative comparison. Metal is not a living being, and corrosion is not a biological process. And yet corrosion, like no other reaction, is similar to diseases of people and products.
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