Currently undergoing dezincification; the ongoing process of losing zinc from an alloy, or describing something in the process of this corrosion.
From dezincify + -ing (present participle suffix). This form appears in technical descriptions of corrosion in progress.
When engineers describe brass pipes as 'dezincifying,' they're warning that the material is actively failing in real-time—it's a slowly-ticking bomb in old plumbing systems!
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