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Glass and mineral corrosion

Dynamics and durability

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The durability of glasses and minerals in water has traditionally been predicted using models that ignore the molecular details. Now the surface structure dynamics are shown to play an integral role in their aqueous corrosion.

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Figure 1: Solute fluxes from the dissolution of two forms of CaSiO3 in acidic solutions3.
Figure 2: Schematic of silicate glass aqueous dissolution.

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  1. William H. Casey is in the Department of Chemistry and Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA. whcasey@ucdavis.edu,

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Casey, W. Dynamics and durability. Nature Mater 7, 930–932 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2326

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