Pit growth behaviour of aluminium under galvanostatic control

Corrosion Science

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3521-3525

  Ono, S ^a   Habazaki, H ^b  

^a Nippon Chemi Con   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A. Aluminium; B. Galvanostatic; B. SEM; C. Pitting corrosion

Indexed keywords

A. ALUMINIUM; ANODIC POTENTIALS; ANODIC PULSE; GALVANOSTATIC CONTROL; GALVANOSTATICS; INITIAL POTENTIAL; MIXED SOLUTION; PIT GROWTH; POTENTIAL TRANSIENT MEASUREMENT;

HYDROCHLORIC ACID; PITTING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 80052318032     PISSN: 0010938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2011.06.024     Document Type: Article

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