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Brian Lerner
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"Tho X. Bui" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
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> The active ingredient is sodium hydroxide (NaOH), also known as lye or caustic soda. This stuff
> will attack aluminum oxide very quickly, but becareful: aside from being rather nasty stuff to
> your body, soaking your aluminum part in aqeous solution of this tuff will cause hydrogen
> absorbtion and embrittlement of the aluminum alloy. Ditto with immersing it in an ultrasonic
> cleaner.
>
> Tho
Hydrogen embrittlement is a new one to me. The gas diffusion rate into a metal is far too slow to
cause serious structure change. Do you mean a surface effect, leading to corrosion?
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> The active ingredient is sodium hydroxide (NaOH), also known as lye or caustic soda. This stuff
> will attack aluminum oxide very quickly, but becareful: aside from being rather nasty stuff to
> your body, soaking your aluminum part in aqeous solution of this tuff will cause hydrogen
> absorbtion and embrittlement of the aluminum alloy. Ditto with immersing it in an ultrasonic
> cleaner.
>
> Tho
Hydrogen embrittlement is a new one to me. The gas diffusion rate into a metal is far too slow to
cause serious structure change. Do you mean a surface effect, leading to corrosion?