{"id":9203,"date":"2011-07-12T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9203"},"modified":"2011-07-12T03:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T08:00:24","slug":"thats-the-way-the-metal-crumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9203","title":{"rendered":"That&#039;s the Way the Metal Crumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2011\/06\/shipbuilder-blames-navy-as-brand-new-warship-disintegrates\">Builder Blames Navy as Brand-New Warship Disintegrates<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are technical terms for this kind of disintegration. Austal USA, Independence\u2019s Alabama-based builder, calls it \u201cgalvanic corrosion.\u201d Civilian scientists know it as \u201celectrolysis.\u201d It\u2019s what occurs when \u201ctwo dissimilar metals, after being in electrical contact with one another, corrode at different rates,\u201d Austal explained in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A reason you aren&#8217;t supposed to mix aluminum and copper wiring in your abode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Builder Blames Navy as Brand-New Warship Disintegrates There are technical terms for this kind of disintegration. Austal USA, Independence\u2019s Alabama-based builder, calls it \u201cgalvanic corrosion.\u201d Civilian scientists know it as \u201celectrolysis.\u201d It\u2019s what occurs when \u201ctwo dissimilar metals, after being &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}