Deposits
Definition
What suspended solids become once they stop moving, settle, and collect on surfaces, wedging into corners and low-flow zones.
Deposits steal access to the surfaces where corrosion, biofilms, scale, and heat transfer are decided. Once deposits take over a surface, chemistry fights behind a wall it cannot reliably penetrate. They are the central mechanism by which solids amplify nearly every other failure mode.
Related concepts
Under-Deposit Corrosion · Amplifier Effect · Heterogeneous Nucleation
How it connects
- this accelerates Corrosion
- this enables Scale
- Biofilm drives this
- Total Suspended Solids drives this
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