Interesting Facts About Corrosion

• Corrosion is a natural mechanism that occurs to all metals

• There are 6 main types of corrosion

• Corrosion failures cost the world in excess of over $2 trillion dollars

• Corrosion can result even in the absence of oxygen

• Corrosion protection is best addressed in the design stage

• Cathodic protection works to make the corrosion reaction thermodynamically unfavorable