Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Turnstiles. Turnstiles is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on May 19, 1976. In part, Joel recorded the album as a celebration of his return to New York City after a sojourn in California.
The 2002 report, titled âCorrosion Costs and Preventive Strategies in the United States,â includes results indicating that the annual estimated direct cost of corrosion in the United States was $276 billion. The study led Congress to develop a Corrosion Policy and Oversight Office within DoD.
Corrosion is the chemical or electrochemical reaction between a material, usually a metal, and its environment that produces a deterioration of the metal and its properties.A chemist would classify corrosion as an oxidation, an electron-transfer reaction involving the loss of electrons. Metal Corrosion or Metallic Corrosion can be defined as the destructive attack of a metal through interaction with its environment. The most common example is Rust, an â¦ iron oxide Fe2O3, that is the consequence of the Corrosion process of Iron. + 9 others found this useful.