Corrosion is often thought of as the oxidation of metals such as iron but ceramics also corrode or react with their environment.
Ceramics and corrosion.
Corrosion resistant ceramics are low in porosity high in density.
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Ceramics ceramco s aluminum oxide and ceramco s zirconium dioxide are already oxides.
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Ceramics are sometimes adhered to metallic surfaces to prevent corrosion and material degradation.
Because corrosion is a diffusion controlled process it occurs on exposed surfaces.
Tungsten carbide usually highly resistant to corrosion is destroyed.
The ability of ceramics to resist corrosion in some cases entirely is the primary reason they are the material of choice for hostile environments.
Dynamic ceramic manufacture corrosion resistant ceramics.
Corrosion can be concentrated locally to form a pit or crack or it can extend across a wide area more or less uniformly corroding the surface.
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They are used in a variety of products from wristwatches to cars and spacecraft for this purpose.
Christos aneziris is head of ceramics at the institute of ceramics glass and construction materials where his research activities include refractories thermal shock performance corrosion high temperature wettability ceramic filters and metal matrix composites.
He is also coordinator of the collaborative research center 920 of the german research foundation.
As such they are almost unaffected by the oxidation process leading to corrosion.