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Eco friendly corrosion inhibitors: Inhibitive action of quinine for corrosion of low carbon steel in 1 m HCl

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Quinine, a natural product, was investigated as a corrosion inhibitor for low carbon steel in 1.0 m HCl solution. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and potentiodynamic polarization were used to study the inhibition action in the temperature range 20–50 °C. The corrosion of steel was controlled by a charge transfer process at the prevailing conditions. The electrochemical results showed that quinine is an efficient inhibitor for low carbon steel and an efficiency up to 96% was obtained at 20 °C. The inhibition efficiency increases with inhibitor concentration and reaches a near constant value in the concentration range 0.48 mM and above. Application of the Langmuir adsorption isotherm enabled a study of the extent and the mode of adsorption.

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Awad, M.I. Eco friendly corrosion inhibitors: Inhibitive action of quinine for corrosion of low carbon steel in 1 m HCl. J Appl Electrochem 36, 1163–1168 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10800-006-9204-1

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