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Author:

Waldman, Jonathan.

Title:

Rust : the longest war / Jonathan Waldman.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 288 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Corrosion and anti-corrosives--History.
Corrosion and anti-corrosives--Anecdotes.

Contents:

Introduction : the pervasive menace -- A high-maintenance lady -- Spoiled iron -- Knives that won't cut -- Coating the can -- Indiana Jane -- The ambassador -- Where the streets are paved with zinc -- Ten thousand mustachioed men -- Pigging the pipe -- Between snake oil and Rolexes -- The future -- Epilogue.

Summary:

It has been called the great destroyer and the evil. The Pentagon refers to it as the pervasive menace. It destroys cars, fells bridges, sinks ships, sparks house fires, and nearly brought down the Statue of Liberty. Rust costs America more than $400 billion per yearmore than all other natural disasters combined.

ISBN:

1451691599 : HRD
9781451691597 : HRD

LCCN:

2014043291

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