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A PAPER describing the investigation of the causes of rusting of iron was read in May, 1907, before the New York Section of the American Chemical Society by Mr. William H. Walker and others, and has been recently printed in this country. After criticising the various explanations which have been put forward of the rusting of iron in contact with water, the authors approve the suggestion of Whitney that the first step in the process is the escape into the liquid of iron in the form of positively charged ions. In confirmation of this, the authors state that they succeeded in detecting iron by chemical tests in water which contained only a trace of electrolyte, and was free from oxygen and carbon dioxide, after the water had been in contact with iron.
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CLOWES, F. The Corrosion of Iron and Steel . Nature 77, 560 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077560b0
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