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corrosion

gradual destruction of materials by chemical reaction with their environment
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Summary

corrosion is a chemical phenomenon[1]. corrosion draws 70,632 Wikipedia views per month (chemical phenomenon category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: wear[3], material degradation[4]
  • Has part(s): oxidation[5]
  • Has cause: chemical reaction[6], corrosive substance[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Corrosion[8]
  • Commons gallery: Corrosion[9]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[10]
  • Main Wikidata property: P5709[11]
  • Equivalent class: https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0020022[12]
  • Different from: abrasion[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14], Information integrity on extreme weather events[15]
  • Handled, mitigated, or managed by: corrosion inhibition[16]

Why It Matters

corrosion has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] corrosion is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Q141572184. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'cdo', 'ckb', 'c
    Commons category → —
    Equivalent class → https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0020022
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0020022"
  2. 17w ago · EPorto (WMB) · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, Information integrity on extreme weather events
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36747|batch #36747]]: Adding P5008"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001965-koroze
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001965-koroze, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has cause → chemical reaction, corrosive substance
    Instance of → chemical phenomenon
    Aliases → —
    Has parts → —
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 8738, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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