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Rice Magazine| The Magazine of Rice University | No. 2 | 2009
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Corrosion Control

It’s a slow process that usually occurs out of sight, silently but incessantly destroying the integrity and life span of buildings, bridges, pipelines and vehicles.

It’s corrosion, and it’s a problem that costs the United States an estimated $276 billion a year. To fight this nemesis of the nation’s infrastructure, Rice has established the National Corrosion Center, which also involves NACE International, an association of more than 20,000 scientists, engineers and technicians concerned with corrosion prevention and control.

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