只因它比飓风、龙卷风、火灾、暴雪和洪水更为缓慢,在这样一场戏剧中,锈蚀是最不起眼的,锈蚀造成的经济损失比上述自然灾害加起来都要大。锈蚀已经撂倒了很多座桥梁,杀死了许多人。在核电站,锈蚀至少夺去了几十条生命,几乎造成核反应堆熔化,还威胁到存储着的核废料。冷战期间,它把最有威力的核弹头变成了哑弹。它切断了美国最长的输油管道,导致美国不得不与欧佩克组织(OPEC)展开多次谈判。它使军用战机与舰船不能良好地服役,导致 Just because it is much slower than hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, blizzards and floods, rust is the least noticeable in such a drama, and the economic damage caused by rusting is greater than the natural disasters described above. Corrosion has yielded many bridges and killed many people. At nuclear power plants, corrosion has claimed at least dozens of lives, almost melting nuclear reactors and threatening stored nuclear waste. During the Cold War, it turned the most powerful nuclear warhead into a dud. It cut off the longest pipeline in the United States, causing the United States to have to negotiate with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OPEC) several times. It caused military fighters and ships not to serve well, resulting in it