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Determination of the Relative Electrode Potential of an Uncharged Metal in Solution

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A RECTANGULAR frame pendulum (Herbert type), oscillating on a spherical glass bearing in contact with a metal surface and surrounded by an electrolytic solution, is known to exhibit a rate of damping which is roughly a parabolic function of the potential of the metal surface1 (cf. the classical electrocapillary curve). Rehbinder1 (see also Rozhanski2) envisaged the formation of “reversible micro-fissures” in the metal surface under deformation: the electrical double layer penetrated the orifice of the micro-fissure, reducing cohesion, and hence the hardness, of the metal.

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    J. O'M. BOCKRIS & R. PARRY-JONES

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BOCKRIS, J., PARRY-JONES, R. Determination of the Relative Electrode Potential of an Uncharged Metal in Solution. Nature 171, 930–931 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171930a0

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