Sentence examples for corrosion away from inspiring English sources

One of the two water lines that burst under Sunset Boulevard last week was so badly worn that "with a little effort, we could almost scrape the corrosion away and kind of rub a hole through the pipe," a top Los Angeles Department of Water and Power executive said Wednesday.

The acid in the soda will eat the corrosion away.

Place your fixed blade knife either on your side, or in the easiest pocket to reach when the pack is on, and always clean and sharpen both knives after use to keep rust and corrosion away and to make sure you have the sharpest tool available(dull knives can result in wasting too much energy when in the bush).

Corrosion, wearing away due to chemical reactions, mainly oxidation (see oxidation-reduction, oxide).

Some garnet and muscovite usually remain after the reaction, although examination of the sample under the microscope would probably reveal partial corrosion (wearing away due to chemical reactions) of the garnets resulting from their consumption.

Geochemist Julio Friedmann of Stanford University is less concerned about corrosion eating away the seals on a sequestration site.

Salt corrosion eats away at the hull and it is also affected by galvanic corrosion.

The functions of a lubricant are to separate moving materials from each other to prevent wear, scoring, and seizure; reduce heat; keep out contaminants; protect against corrosion; and wash away worn materials.

State inspectors discovered that corrosion had eaten away at….

State inspectors discovered that corrosion had eaten away at the bridge's supports as a result of years of inadequate maintenance by the city.

Corrosion had eaten away nearly half of the metal wall of a pipeline that ruptured and spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude oil along the Santa Barbara coast last month, federal regulators said Wednesday.