Intergranular corrosion
This type of corrosion is due either
to the presence of impurities in the boundaries, or to local
enrichment or depletion of one or more alloying elements .
fro example, small quantities of iron in aluminium or titanium
(metals in which iron has a low solubility) , segregate to
the grain boundaries where they can induce intergranular corrosion.
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