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Stories about: corrosion

EK Improves Water Block Nickel Plating to Resolve Corrosion Issues Water cooling expert EK has just announced that it has started to improve the quality of the nickel-plating used for covering its water blocks as a response to all the corrosion claims that have reached the company in mid-June. The plating is used for protecting the copper water block from the corrosive agents fou... 2 August 2011 09:10 GMT Hydrophobic Coating Patent Awarded to NJIT Expert New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) associate professor of chemistry Sergiu M. Gorun, PhD, was recently awarded a new patent by United States authority, on the development of a new type of hydrophobic, corrosion-resistant coating. The stuff can be applied on a wide range of surfaces, in both an opaque and trans... 2 March 2010 10:06 GMT How Does Rust Work? Simply put, rust is the common term for iron or iron alloy corrosion. Though most of the metals present on Earth eventually go through a corrosion phase, we only refer to the iron metal corrosion when we say the word rust. Iron corrosion represents a set of chemical reactions between iron, water and oxygen, which end... 11 February 2008 10:37 GMT