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.
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978-1-4684-1806-4 (9781468418064)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4684-1806-4
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1. Introduction to Corrosion.- 1.1. Economic and Technical Significance.- 1.2. Complexity of Corrosion Phenomena.- 1.3. Influence of Oxidants, Electric Currents, Motion of Solutions.- 1.4. Application of Chemical Thermodynamics.- 1.5. Application of Electrochemical Thermodynamics.- 2. Chemical and Electrochemical Reactions.- 3. Chemical Equilibria.- 3.1. General Formula of Chemical Equilibria.- 3.2. Influence of pH on Chemical Equilibria. Graphic Representation.- 4. Electrochemical Equilibria.- 4.1. Electrochemical Oxidations and Reductions.- 4.2. Galvanic Cells.- 4.3. Any Electrochemical Reaction.- 4.4. Diagram of Electrochemical Equilibria of Water.- 4.5. Diagram of Electrochemical Equilibria of Hydrogen Peroxide. Oxidation, Reduction, and Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide. Reduction of Oxygen.- 4.6. Diagrams of Electrochemical Equilibria of Metals and Metalloids.- 5. Electrochemical Kinetics.- 5.1. General Remarks.- 5.2. Direction of Electrochemical Reactions.- 5.3. Affinity, Overpotential, Rate, and Direction of Electrochemical Reactions. The Second Principle of Electrochemical Thermodynamics.- 5.4. Reaction Currents.- 5.5. Polarization Curves.- 5.6. Electrochemical Catalysis of Chemical Reactions.- 6. Corrosion and Protection of Iron and Steel.- 6.1. Diagram of Electrochemical Equilibria of the Iron-Water System at 25°C.- 6.2. General Conditions of Corrosion, Immunity, and Passivation of Iron.- 6.3. Polarization Curves.- 6.4. Behavior of Electrically Insulated Iron.- 6.5. Behavior of Iron Coupled to Another Metal.- 6.6. Protection of Iron and Steel Against Corrosion.- 7. Further Applications of Electrochemistry to Corrosion Studies.- 7.1. Introduction.- 7.2. Potential-pH Equilibrium Diagrams for Complex Systems Containing Copper at 25°C.- 7.4. The Influence ofTemperature on Electrochemical Equilibria. Electrode Potential-Temperature Diagrams.- General Bibliography.- Author Index.
