Blog 4 1/23/11 Experiment

It also turns out that water makes the corrosion happen, but if a base or an acid are included, the process of corrosion is greatly accelerated. This is such a problem because there is water everywhere, and water pollutants in the water. When it rains, everything is exposed. So the acid in the rain accelerates the corrosion of the metal. In addition, there is salts that are used to help the roads in the winter, and the salt eventually ends up in the water, in rivers and in groundwater. However, the one of the major concerns are major factories illegally dumping their wastes or burning into the atmosphere. This could make basic rain, and extremely harmful substances to our water, that in turn would help corrode the metals in frameworks. Even humidity contributes to the corrosion effect.