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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Barracato" data-source="post: 48558" data-attributes="member: 24">Re: Water damage... causesI was thinking all along of the extreme case, and as most of my research work was in the marine environment. You might be surprised at just how anoxic water can get and how little exchange is really occuring. Since you mentioned it, I would say that the kinetics also determines the competitive equilibria. I think if you were to compare the thermodynamic Keq of the two possible products while it is fair to say SOME of the less favorable product is formed, it will also be at an insignificantly small amount due to the difference in stability. And as for defining conditions (as I was indulging in a Fermi estimation) I would say the presence or lack of an external voltage is fairly critical to defining the situation.By the way, in the sunken boat example, all the metal that was brought to the surface was basically unreacted; steel, brass, aluminum. Much of it looked better than the same stuff sitting out in the atmosphere would have looked after 2 months.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay Barracato, post: 48558, member: 24"] Re: Water damage... causes I was thinking all along of the extreme case, and as most of my research work was in the marine environment. You might be surprised at just how anoxic water can get and how little exchange is really occuring. Since you mentioned it, I would say that the kinetics also determines the competitive equilibria. I think if you were to compare the thermodynamic Keq of the two possible products while it is fair to say SOME of the less favorable product is formed, it will also be at an insignificantly small amount due to the difference in stability. And as for defining conditions (as I was indulging in a Fermi estimation) I would say the presence or lack of an external voltage is fairly critical to defining the situation. By the way, in the sunken boat example, all the metal that was brought to the surface was basically unreacted; steel, brass, aluminum. Much of it looked better than the same stuff sitting out in the atmosphere would have looked after 2 months. [/QUOTE]

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