Understanding Electronic Corrosion and its Prevention Time is a great healer, but when it comes to matters of industrial importance, it can sometimes act as an even greater destroyer. Like every human being, every machine has a life too. But with time unless you maintain it, the efficiency is going to suffer by leaps. This withering of the machinery with time is what scientifically termed “Corrosion.” With time, the forces of nature – heat, light, air, and moisture tarnish away the components making them inefficient and eventually broken.
To prevent this eventual corrosion, firstly it’s important to understand how and why it happens? The machinery that is employed in industries is generally made up of metals, these metals when comes in contact with water present as moisture and the oxygen present in the atmosphere undergoes a spontaneous chemical reaction producing the oxide of that metal which is what we call rust, this rust comes off from the