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cathodic protection

noun

Definition of CATHODIC PROTECTION

:  the prevention of electrolytic corrosion of a usually metallic structure (as a pipeline) by causing it to act as the cathode rather than as the anode of an electrochemical cell
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First Known Use of CATHODIC PROTECTION

1930

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