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THE inactivation of antifouling paints in the neighbourhood of an exposed steel surface, referred to by Young and Seagren1, has often been encountered by investigators of the Marine Corrosion Sub-Committee. Fouling on one or both sides of an unpainted ‘holiday’ (the location of the fouling being determined by the direction of tidal flow) is invariably accompanied by rust deposits in the fouled areas.
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Young and Seagren, Nature, 155, 715 (1945).
Evans, U. R., "Metallic Corrosion, Passivity and Protection", pp. 164 and 584 (London, 1938).
The following paper on work in the United States has arrived in Britain since going to press. Ketchum, B. H., Ferry, J. D., Redfield, A. C. and Burns, A. E., Ind. Eng. Chem., 37, 456 (1945).
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HARRIS, J. Anomalous Inactivation of Heavy Metal Antifouling Paints. Nature 156, 206–207 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156206a0
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