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(1) A reduction of the anodic reaction rate of an electrode involved in corrosion. (2) The process in metal corrosion by which metals become passive. (3) The changing of a chemically active surface of' a metal to a much less reactive state. Contrast with ...

Evidence of plastic deformation in structural materials. Also called plastic flow or creep. See also flow.

An up slope wind due to local surface heating. Opposite of katabatic wind.

The amount of precipitation captured by a rain gauge.

In the UK the assured is a person (or people) who has entered into a life assurance contract with a.

pattern barometer-Mercurial barometer with a fixed scale and cistern and which therefore requires only one adjustment before each reading.

In the US, the total number of shares which a corporation may issue, in accordance with the limits.

One Person Bridge Operation.

Port Aft

Material placed in a drilled hole to fill space around anodes, vent pipe, and buried components of a cathodic protection system.

Term for disabled vessel that had to fall out of a convoy and thus became easy prey for submarines.

The frequency of a carrier wave.

Remedial Action Projects

Very Large Bulk Carrier (over 180,000 DWT)

Marine Casualty Response Center.

A device, such as a steel plate, used to check, retard, or divert a flow of a material.

Tender.

In a cathodic protection system, in electrically nonconductive material, such as a coating, plastic sheet or pipe that is placed between an anode and an adjacent cathode to avoid current wastage and to improve current distribution, usually on the cathode.

The process by which a third party, usually a bank guarantees the undertaking of the drawee to meet their responsibility under a Bill of Exchange. The words "Per Aval" and the signature of the avalizing (guarantor) party must be written on the Bill. ...