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Researchers have found that a form of nanoscale corrosion is responsible for unpredictably decreasing the working life of steel pipes. The researchers were able to pin the root of the problem on a triple junction formed by a grain of cementite—a compound of carbon and iron—and two grains of ferrite, a type of iron.
