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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

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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.

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Title
The Electrolytic Mechanism of Corrosion
Author
Prof. em. Dr. rer. nat. Helmut Kaesche
Copyright Year
2003
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96038-3_4

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