Sentence examples for corrosive air from inspiring English sources

A number of national committees too now exist to save Venice and its art treasures from the combined effects of corrosive air pollution, rising damp, flooding in high-water periods, sheer age, and even defacement by pigeons.

In the 1980s, Mr. Voulgarakis acknowledged, it was possible to argue that the sculptures were better housed in the British Museum than at the original site, where remaining parts of the frieze suffered from corrosive air pollution in Athens.

The quadriga of Greek bronze horses that for more than 700 years stood over the main portal of St. Mark's Basilica before falling victim to corrosive air pollution, is now restored and can be viewed in the little museum behind the church's facade (open 10 A.M. to 4 30 P.M. daily; admission is about 35 cents).

In 1998 new rules meant to clear the corrosive air in nearly all of Mexico's urban areas will require electricity producers to switch from fuel oil to gas.

The corrosive air was generated by mixing streams of synthetic dry air, purified from gases and particles through filters, and humidified air.

Corrosive air-borne particles ate into the cameras, which promptly broke down.

A gas mixing unit provided the corrosive atmosphere, where synthetic air is mixed with any amount of relative humidity (0 95% RH) and acidifying gas (H2S, SO2) to simulate real world atmospheric corrosion conditions [34, 35].

Pumps coated with black stickiness rusted in the corrosive salt air...

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These monuments and artworks exposed to polluted air and corrosive acid rain water and are now at risk of degradation and deterioration.

Ball-burnishing led to superior fatigue performance in air and under corrosive environment in comparison to other investigated conditions.