| Oxygen is able to embrittle beryllium, but there is no quantitative measure of the effect. |
| However, these coatings where the concentration of active HALS drops to zero at the surface are known to rapidly photooxidize and embrittle. |
| Hydrogen will embrittle the high-strength steel used in such pipelines, however, raising the risk of rupture and explosion of leading hydrogen. |
| It should however be noted that excessive treatment can embrittle the substrate or even destroy the superficial coating. |
| The grenade fuzes are cut off mechanically before the grenades are passed through a bath of liquid nitrogen to embrittle their structures. |
| This combination of gases produces a corrosive by-product that causes lesser pressure sensor technologies to embrittle and fail during the refining process of oil and gas. |
