Corrosion control by means of organic linings and coverings has not attained the recognition in the corrosion literature which its long and successful use has earned for it. Rubber linings in commercial use long antedated the use of stainless steel, yet even in Uhlig’s Corrosion Handbook1 106 pages have been devoted to stainless steels, only one of the many types of corrosion-resistant alloys, whereas some 58 pages cover all types of organic materials, and of these 58 pages considerable space is devoted to a discussion of wood and structural paints.
The reason for this can be laid to several causes: First, until recent years, rubber, pitch and wood remained the only successful corrosion-resistant materials in industrial use; second, manufacturers of organic corrosion-resistant linings and coatings persist in obscuring the nature of their products in trade names which defy their classification and analysis according to proper scientific procedures, and the...
