Lectures on Electrochemical Corrosion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction to Corrosion

   • Marcel Pourbaix, Roger W. Staehle

   Pages 1-22

3. Chemical and Electrochemical Reactions

   • Marcel Pourbaix, Roger W. Staehle

   Pages 23-28

4. Chemical Equilibria

   • Marcel Pourbaix, Roger W. Staehle

   Pages 29-81

5. Electrochemical Equilibria

   • Marcel Pourbaix, Roger W. Staehle

   Pages 83-183

6. Electrochemical Kinetics

   • Marcel Pourbaix, Roger W. Staehle

   Pages 185-200

7. Corrosion and Protection of Iron and Steel

   • Marcel Pourbaix, Roger W. Staehle

   Pages 201-295

8. Further Applications of Electrochemistry to Corrosion Studies

   • Marcel Pourbaix, Roger W. Staehle

   Pages 297-314

9. Back Matter

   Pages 315-336

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Workers in the field of corrosion and their students are most fortunate that a happy set of circumstances brought Dr. Marcel Pourbaix into their field in 1949. First, he was invited, while in the USA, to demonstrate at a two­ week visit to the National Bureau of Standards the usefulness of his electro­ chemical concepts to the study of corrosion. Secondly, also around the same time, Prof. H. H. Uhlig made a speech before the United Nations which pointed out the tremendous economic consequences of corrosion. Because of these circumstances, Dr. Pourbaix has reminisced, he chose to devote most of his efforts to corrosion rather than to electrolysis, batteries, geology, or any of the other fields where, one might add, they were equally valuable. This decision resulted in his establishing CEBELCOR (Centre BeIge d'Etude de la Corrosion) and in his development of a course at the Free University of Brussels entitled "Lectures on Electrochemical Corrosion." This book is the collection of these lectures translated into English.

• Absorption
• Potentiostat
• Sorption
• adsorption
• catalysis
• chemical reaction
• electrochemistry
• electrolysis
• enthalpy
• fuel cell
• geology
• kinetics
• metals
• structure
• thermodynamics

• Centre Belge d’Etude de la Corrsion CEBELCOR, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

  Marcel Pourbaix

• Corrosion Center Department of Metallurgical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

  Roger W. Staehle

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