2003 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Electrolytic Mechanism of Corrosion
Author : Prof. em. Dr. rer. nat. Helmut Kaesche
Published in: Corrosion of Metals
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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In this chapter, we shall verify the supposition that corrosion proceeds by the superposition of kinetically independent electrode half-reactions: anodic metal dissolution and cathodic reduction of an oxidizing species, such as hydrogen ions, or oxygen molecules, or others.