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 BEGINNER GUIDES BENCHMARKING ... Classified Ads   document.write(''); Please read EMAIL FAQs first:  Comments, suggestions, and questions to Joe Citarella, Skip MacWilliam, or Ed Stroligo  document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); "Watercooling, Electrochemistry and Sacrifical Anodes"   Steven Bazzell and Mathew Barchok - 11/4/02  We all know that having a copper block and an aluminum radiator is bad. Now, you can add an additive to your water to slow corrosion down to a bare minimum, but going all copper is just the better way to go. I will attempt to explain this whole process, so that you can have a better understanding of how this works, why this works, and how to prevent it from happening. I'm not going to fully explain the process of redox reactions and electrochemistry, so you're going to have to rough it through. Since we are dealing with Cu (copper) and Al (aluminum), let's find their Standard Reduction Potentials at 25*C (298K).
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