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My introduction to corrosion took place in the Inco Research Laboratory at Bayonne, New Jersey in September, 1927. My mentors were O. B. J. Fraser, Don Ackerman, and John Sands. This was at the time they had published a paper under the splendid title "Controllable Variables in the Quantitative Study of the Submerged Corrosion of Metals" [Ind, & Eng. Chem., Vol. 19, p. 332 (1927)]. The variables included temperature, velocity of movement, and aeration. All of these were found to have profound effects on corrosion in the systems used in their experiments. During the succeeding 50+ years in which I have been involved in trying to predict or explain corrosion behavior, I have remained convinced that there are many factors that must be provided for in undertaking corrosion tests related to performance in some use environment. Implementation of this requirement is not likely to be achieved by relatively simple experimental...