Comment on Can acidic and carbonated drinks corrode aluminium bottles?
schmidtster@lemmy.world 9 months agoI 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 9 months ago
What? Corrosion is the surface oxidizing, not the entire thing dissolving.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 9 months 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.