Posted by bloke on February 09, 2004 at 13:47:01:
In Reply to: Re: Offbeat plating question posted by Rick Denney on February 09, 2004 at 11:59:06:
I know admitted very little about metallurgy, but isn't red-rot (dezincification) actually caused by concentrated alkalines dissolving zinc* (rather than oxidizing it)?
(This is a "real" question, and not intended to be a "statement" in the "form" of a question.)
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*dissolving zinc out of the copper-zinc alloy (brass)