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There's also the fact that metals become brittle when exposed to hydrogen. Hydrogen seeps through the crystal/atomic lattice and combines with oxygen or carbon,
by theandrewbailey 7y ago
There's also the fact that metals become brittle when exposed to hydrogen. Hydrogen seeps through the crystal/atomic lattice and combines with oxygen or carbon, and tears the metal apart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
- jeffreyrogers 7y agoThe high pressure containers are made from composites though. Are they susceptible to embrittlement as well?
- syntaxing 7y agoI thought hydrogen embrittlement only effects mainly steel that under go high temperature. That's why the rebake stuff in inert environments that was forged like screws.