High-temperature corrosion is a form of
corrosion that does not require
the presence of a liquid electrolyte. Sometimes, this type of damage is
called dry corrosion or scaling. The term oxidation is ambivalent
because it can either refer to the formation of oxides or to the mechanism
of oxidation of a metal (i.e., its change to a higher valence than the
metallic state). Strictly speaking, high-temperature oxidation is only
one type of high-temperature corrosion, but it is the most important
high-temperature corrosion reaction