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Electrochemical Passivation of Metals

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Electrochemical Materials Science

Part of the book series: Comprehensive Treatise of Electrochemistry ((AN,volume 4))

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It is common knowledge that metallic iron and nickel placed in acidic solutions corrode with evolution of hydrogen gas. In concentrated nitric acid, however, they suddenly become protected against corrosion some time after violent metal dissolution and gas evolution have occurred. A sudden decrease of metal dissolution is also observed when they are anodically polarized in acid and neutral solutions. The unstable surface of actively corroding metals in aqueous solutions can thus sometimes be made stable in the presence of a strong oxidant or by polarizing the electrode potential in the anodic (positive) direction. The phenomena, which was found in the days of Faraday,(1) is called the electrochemical passivation of metals, and the corrosion-resistance state of the stable surface is called the passive state, as contrasted with the active state of the corroding surface; the term chemical passivation is sometimes used for the passivation caused by oxidants and the anodic passivation for the anodic formation of passivity.

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Sato, N., Okamoto, G. (1981). Electrochemical Passivation of Metals. In: Bockris, J.O., Conway, B.E., Yeager, E., White, R.E. (eds) Electrochemical Materials Science. Comprehensive Treatise of Electrochemistry, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4825-3_4

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