Blog 17 2/6/11

I learned that without oxygen, corrosion is impossible. Everything oxidizes, including humans as well, if there was no oxygen, humans would die, but they would not age. Everything deteriorating is because of oxygen. Corrosion is a specific deterioration, that needs oxygen. The water needs dissolved oxygen inside it for the corrosion to happen. On top of the anode, cathode and electrolyte, oxygen has to be present, such as dissolved oxygen.