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This chapter will review briefly the principles of thermodynamics needed to consider corrosion from a thermodynamic point of view. In particular we are working toward the treatment of galvanic corrosion and the construction and analysis of Pourbaix diagrams. As will be seen in Chapter 6, Pourbaix diagrams are useful diagrams to summarize concisely the corrosion behavior of a given metal.
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McCafferty, E. (2010). A Brief Review of Thermodynamics. In: Introduction to Corrosion Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0455-3_4
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