Spons' dictionary of engineering, civil, mechanical, military, and naval; with technical terms in French, German, Italian, and Spanish (1871)
Spon, Edward, Byrne, Oliver, Spon, Ernest · London, New York : E. & F.N. Spon · leaf 331
CORROSION. 1087 Though the corrosion produced by the water is slow in action and but slight in effect on the rest of the boiler-plates, which are protected by some deposit of incrustation remaining almost con- … a locomotive boiler during the five to eight years in which the plates have become corroded through. As this is nearly double the quantity evaporated in the same time by an ordinary stationary boiler having three times the surface of boiler-plate exposed to the action of the water, the total work…
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