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sacrificial anode. A piece of metal on an underwater structure designed to protect the immediate point of location from corrosion. The idea is that the seawater will attack the anode rather than the structure.
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Stevens, P. (1988). S. In: Stevens, P. (eds) Oil and Gas Dictionary. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07579-9_19
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