red rot (English, noun)
expansion: red rot (uncountable)
Senses:
glosses: A degradation process in vegetable-tanned leather, caused by humidity, environmental pollution, and high temperature, and resulting in a powdery surface and structural weakness.
tags: uncountable
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A degradation process in brass where chemical dezincification of the brass alloy leaves behind fragile or powdery copper metal.
tags: uncountable
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: A disease of sugar cane caused by the fungus Glomerella tucumanensis.
tags: uncountable
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