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THE reference by Dr. L. A. Jordan1 to the possibilities of cementiferous paints as fireproof coverings for the interior of warships makes it advisable to supply an earlier chapter in the history of these paints. The fact that metallic particles interact with certain chlorides to give cement-like masses was noticed by Dr. U. R. Evans, of the University of Cambridge, when working on a Service problem in 1940. He later extended the idea to produce water paints which could be applied to a wet steel surface, and which provided cathodic protection to the steel, even where exposed at discontinuities. Such a paint was put into industrial use in 1942 in a plant where rapid corrosion cracking had caused frequent stoppages in a process of high war priority, and has been in use ever since. Here, the conditions are quite exceptional, and it is unlikely that the paints have any advantage in the average terrestrial situation.
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Jordan, L. A., Nature, 160, 216 (1947).
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AUSTIN, G. Cementiferous Paints and their Uses. Nature 161, 569 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161569a0
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