Corrosion vs Abrasion - What's the difference?
corrosion | abrasion |
The act of corroding or the condition so produced.
A substance (such as rust) so formed.
(chemistry) Erosion by chemical action, especially oxidation.
(by extension) The gradual destruction or undermining of something.
The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
(obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
(geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
(medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
(dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.
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