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A study of the corrosion of dental amalgam using the ring-disk electrode

✍ Scribed by Gal-Or, Leah ;Bruckenstein, Stanley ;Carter, J. M.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1978
Tongue
English
Weight
442 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9304

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The rotating ring‐disk electrode technique has been applied to the study of anodic dissolution of dental amalgam in a simulated saline solution.

The electroactive domains of the silver, tin, and mercury couples (the main constituents of the amalgam) were determined from current–potential curves obtained at a rotating gold‐disk electrode in solutions containing salts of the respective metals. Subsequently, anodic currents were applied to a rotating amalgam‐disk electrode and the soluble products produced were identified using a concentric gold ring electrode, i.e., using the rotating gold‐ring, amalgam‐disk electrode. Species generated at the amalgam disk are transferred to the gold ring by convective diffusion. Tin ions were found to be the only soluble species generated at the amalgam disk. No evidence for dissolution of other components was found. The selective dissolution of tin from the amalgam is also consistant with potential shifts observed in repetitive current‐potential curves of an amalgam disk.

This study provides a direct proof for the selective dissolution of tin during corrosion of dental amalgam in an in vitro environment.

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