Nickel in corrosion-resisting alloys

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1930
• Weight: 276 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000492304

✦ Synopsis

I3cngougli nnd collit-Irorators, and t,lie results obtnincd nindc a very viilnablc contrihtion townrds it,s solution. Tlicre \vas little tloiilh, Iiowcver, t.liirt tlic study of corrosion in lmss tubcs wns only one I~rnnch of LL very cstcnsivc subjcct, nnnicly, tlic nntiirc and prevention of inctnl corrosion generally, nnd fnrtlicr stcps wcrc neccssnry bcforc siicli ;in cnornioiis ~~roblcni could be attnckcd. thcortlingly, in 192.1 the Dcliartincnt of Scicntific nntl Intliistriiil Rcscnrcli set up tlic Corrosion of Jfctals Research Coninlittee, which a t t,lic out.sct undcrtook to tlcvclop qnuntitativc incthods of invcstigntion of corrosion, I? nmttcr of tlic Iiiglicst itiiportsncc, since in the nieiisiirtmcnt of uttnck upon 1i11y piirticulnr iiictal SO intic11 tlcpcnds lipon tlic conditions nntl uictliods of cspcrinicnt,. Stnndurd tcchniquc rlcviscd 1 iy t.lic Coninlittee wns ~~iil~lislicil in tlic " Proceedings of the Ropnl Society," 1927, [a], 1113, a n d constituted i t most progrmsive stcp, fully justifying tlic three years' work cntniled : nctnnlly, Iiowvcr, tliosc tlircc ycnrs also prochiccd otlicr inforinntion upon allied prolhns. Since that, tliitc tlic Coinniittcc liiis continiicd it,s invcst,igntions, nncl Iias pultlblic~l reports npoii tlic corrosion of zinc, copper, ant1 nluminiiiin. Tlic Corro&m Coinniittcc of tlic Iiistitutc! of JIctnls, niidcr tlic clinirni:iiisliip of Prof. Sir 11. C. IInroId C';irpcntcr, F.R.S., lins coiitiniiccl its work on coiidcoscr tiilm, nnd lins cight reports to it,s credit. In tlic last report, published in I%!), Mr. R. Jfiiy deals witli