Over many years, it has been said in meetings of various sorts that natural seawater is much more corrosive than salt solutions. The literature is strangely silent on this subject, and inquiry from one’s friends does not elicit any sound data or substantive opinion. An element in the scientific society has sought to ascribe the difference in the corrosion behavior of metals in natural sea water and salt solutions to "biological effects". Actually, there has been no documentation of the existence of this "difference". Several years ago the author and his students proved that there was no significant difference in the corrosion rate of certain metals in natural and in sterile sea water. (1).
Subject
Acids,
Water,
Corrosion rate,
Metal surfaces,
Sodium chloride,
Solubility,
Sodium chloride solution,
Metals,
Weight loss,
Steel,
Copper,
Brass,
Elements
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1973
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