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THE author gives a concise account of all the important work that has been carried out in connection with investigations relating to the causes of corrosion of iron and steel. The book is a model of its kind, since the references to original contributions to knowledge are exhaustive and will serve to direct the investigator to the literature of that branch of the subject in which he is specially interested. After dealing with the action of air, of water and of steam on iron, the various theories which have been advanced to explain corrosion are discussed, and the conclusion is drawn that “the most recent experimental results are entirely in favour of the acid theory of corrosion.”
The Corrosion of Iron and Steel.
By Dr. J. Newton Friend. Pp. xiv + 300. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911.) Price 6s. net.
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M., G. The Corrosion of Iron and Steel . Nature 88, 37 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088037a0
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