Conclusion
The cause of failure of automobile gas bottles of steel 30KhMA operated in southern Kazakhstan is corrosive hydrogen sulfide cracking of the metal caused by natural gas that has not been cleansed or dried.
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Scientific and Production Association VNITI, Dnepropetrovsk; Il'ich Metallurgical Combine, Mariupol. Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 4, pp. 37–38, April, 1992.
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Beilinova, T.A., Storozhenko, I.A., Belostochnyi, V.V. et al. Investigation of the metal of automobile gas bottles after opration in different regions. Met Sci Heat Treat 34, 276–278 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00702550
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