Comment on Can acidic and carbonated drinks corrode aluminium bottles?
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year agoLeave water in those non coated metal containers long enough and it’ll leach from the metal.
in some cosmic sense yeah there will be equilibrium after some time but most of the time it’s just called “corrosion”
schmidtster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I believe the distinction is necessary, corrosion would be the entire bottle “dissolving” which wouldn’t happen with water. With leaching only a few elements would transfer.
thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
What? Corrosion is the surface oxidizing, not the entire thing dissolving.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When the surface oxides, that layer get removed, than the surface oxides, that layer disappears. Repeat ad-nauseam until it’s completely gone.
Dissolving is oversimplifying, but eventually the entire thing will disappear with corrosion.