Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials: Volume 8 Issue 2

CORROSION COMMENTARY

WORLD NICKEL CONSUMPTION. Consumption of nickel by the free world will set a new high annual record in 1960, exceeding 500 million lb., an increase of over 15% above that of 1959…

CORROSION RESISTANCE OF ELECTROPOLISHED SURFACES

H.E. Zentler Gordon, S.C. Boyle

Quite often in everyday service ‘stainless’ steels stain and ‘rustless’ alloys rust. In particular, the straight chrome/iron nickel‐free alloys have frequently exhibited early…

Recent Developments in Phosphating

H.A. Holden

The phosphate treatment of metals has been in industrial use for over 50 years and is the most widely used method of treating light‐gauge steel as a preparation for painting; in…

STAINLESS STEEL: Corrosion Resistance in Chemical Plant

E. Ineson

Stainless steel is rapidly achieving pre‐eminence as a favoured material of construction due, no doubt, to the fact that for many applications in chemical plant it is the only…

Letter to the Editor: THE IRON COLUMN AT DELHI

SIR, The occasion of the Corrosion and Metal Finishing Exhibition appears to have aroused fresh interest in the remarkable iron column at Delhi that is still, after nearly 1,700…

PRODUCTS and PROCESSES: PROVIDING INDUSTRY WITH THE MEANS TO COMBAT CORROSION

Audio Thickness Gauge. Thickness of sprayed zinc and aluminium coatings can be rapidly checked with the new Metallisation Ltd. audio thickness gauge. The instrument has an…

Corrosion Protection in Organic Chemicals Manufacturing Plant

THE last few years have seen the increasing use of organic brighteners for producing a bright electrodeposit in nickel plating systems without polishing. Now, the Electro‐Chemical…

CORROSION RESEARCH ROUND‐UP

TITANIUM Influence of palladium on resistance and passivation. The metal laboratory of the Metallgesellschaft A.G., Frankfurt/Main, has investigated the influence of a palladium…

NEWS OF INDUSTRY

Corrosion and Welding Services Combine. Services provided by Welding Supervision Ltd. and Cathodic Corrosion Control Ltd. (subsidiaries of Constructors John Brown Ltd.) have been…