{"term":{"id":"05551","title":"selective corrosion","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - selective corrosion","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.S05551","code":"S05551","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Corrosion of a single phase having more than one component, when the ratio of the corrosion rates of the components differs from the ratio of bulk mole fractions. Selective corrosion changes the composition of the material in the interfacial region.","links":[{"term":"Corrosion","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/C01351"},{"term":"interfacial region","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/I03087"},{"term":"mole","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/M03980"}],"sources":["PAC, 1989, 61, 19. 'Electrochemical corrosion nomenclature (Recommendations 1988)' on page 21 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac198961010019)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S05551\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S05551\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S05551\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'selective corrosion' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.S05551","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-24T07:29:05+00:00"}}