The corrosion environment in North America is particularly aggressive in the "snow-belt" areas of the United States and Canada where deicing salts are used and where industrial and marine atmospheres contribute to the total effect. The singular importance of this fact led to the creation of Unit Committee T-3N within the Technical Practices Committee of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers. The function of this committee is to characterize, review, and report on the various aspects of corrosion by deicing salts. Task Group T-3N-5 was given the responsibility to review the literature related to deicing salts, their use, and their effects. This report contains a digest of part of that review and includes supplementary information related to environmental factors that affect corrosion.

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Costs, Water, Salts, Corrosion rate, Winter, Sodium chloride, Deicing, Acidity, Metals, Corrosion inhibitors, Automotive, Corrosion protection, Relative humidity
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1974
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