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Sacrificial Anode

Sacrificial Anode Cathodic Protection (SACP)

Sacrificial Coating

Sacrificial Pigment

Sacrificial Protection

Safety Shut-Off Valve

Saint-Venant's Principle

Salt Spray Testing

Saltwater Disposal Well

Sand Blast Cleaning

Saturated Calomel Electrode (SCE)

Saturated Steam

Saturation Index

Scale Inhibitor

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

Scratch Hardness

Se

Season Cracking

Secondary Containment

Secondary Containment Coating

Secondary Treatment

Self-Bonding Coatings

Self-curing Coating

Self-Healing Coating

Self-healing Metal Oxide

Semi-finished Steel

Semi-killed Steel

Semipermeable Membrane

Separator (Oil and/or Water)

Sequestering Agent

Service Exposure

Shear Fracture Percentage

Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW)

Short Oil Alkyd Resin

Short-Term Exposure Limit (STEL)

Shot Blast Cleaning

SI

Sidestream Device

Silica-Based Insulation Coating

Silicon Iron Anode

Silicone Alkyd Coating

Silicone Anti-fouling

Silver Corrosion

Silver Nitrate (AgNO3)

Single Component Coating

Single Component Spray System

Single-Package Coating

Skeleton Corrosion

Sling Psychrometer

Slip Dissolution (SCC)

Slip Line Field Theory

Slip-Plane Outerwrap

Slow Strain Rate Testing (SSRT)

Slurry Blasting

Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC)

Sodium Bicarbonate Abrasive

Sodium Bicarbonate Blast Cleaning (SBBC)

Sodium Carbonate

Sodium Chlorate

Sodium Chloride

Sodium Hypochlorite

Sodium Polysilicate

Sodium Sulfide Spot Test

Softening Point

Soil Resistivity

Solar Collector

Solar Reflectance

Solar Reflective Index (SRI)

Solids By Volume

Solids By Weight

Soluble Corrosion Inhibitor (SCI)

Soluble Salt Contaminant

Solvent Balance

Solvent Cleaning

Solvent Cutback

Solvent Entrapment

Solvent Popping

Solvent Release

Solvent-based Acrylic Sealer

Solvent-borne Coating

Solventless Coating

Spatter Coating

Specific Gravity (SP.GR)

Specific Strength

Spectroelectrochemistry (SEC)

Spill Containment

Sponge Painting

Spray Atomization

Spray Polyurethane Foam (SPF)

Spray-on Lining

Spreader Adjusting Valve

SS

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP)

Stainless Steel

Stainless Steel Corrosion

Stand-Off Distance

Standard Electrode

Standard Reference Electrode (SRE)

Static Discharge

Static Pressure

Static Shielding

Stationary Source

Steady State Electrode

Steel Corrosion

Steel Mandrel Pig

Steel-to-Steel Electrolysis

Stoichiometric Reaction

Storage And Disposal Treatment Facility

Strain-Hardened Stainless Steel

Stratified Corrosion

Stray Current Corrosion

Stray Current Mapper (SCM)

Stress Concentration Factor (Kt)

Stress Concentration Factor at a Hole

Stress Concentration Factor Calculation

Stress Concentration Factor Chart

Stress Corrosion

Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC)

Stress Intensity Factor (K)

Stress Relieving

Stress-Relief Cracking

Strontium Chromate

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)

Substrate Preparation

Subsurface Corrosion

Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)

Subtropical Testing

Sulfamate Nickel Chrome

Sulfate Ion Content

Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria (SRB)

Sulfide Stress Cracking (SSC)

Sulfur Dioxide (SO2)

Sulfuric Acid Spot Test

Superchlorination

Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Superheated Steam

Surface Analysis

Surface Area Impact

Surface Blowoff

Surface Contaminants

Surface Defects

Surface Fatigue

Surface Hardener

Surface Modifier

Surface Preparation

Surface Preparation Water

Surface Profile Comparator

Surface Profile Gauge

Surface Resistivity

Surface Tension

Surface Tolerance

Surface Topography

Surface-Active Agent (SAA)

Surface-Tolerant Coating

Surface-Tolerant Epoxy

Suspended Solids (SS)

Sweep Blast Cleaning

Sweet Corrosion

Swivel Ring Flange

Synthetic Detergent

Synthetic Resin