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CORROSION COMMENTARY
PTFE DISPERSIONS. The big drawback to the ‘wonder plastic’ material—polytetrafluoroethylene—is its very high cost, and the very little that is at present being used in the U.K…
Corrosion Problems on THE TEXAS GULF COAST PART ONE
A.D. RustThis article is concerned primarily with corrosion and associated subjects as encountered at the two plants of The Dow Chemical Co., Freeport, Texas. The firm has an investment in…
LANOLIN — as a Temporary Protective
H. SilmanAlthough oils and greases have for long been applied to metals to protect them from corrosion, it has been with varying degrees of success and, in fact, it is now known that the…
A Systematic Scheme for Examining CORRODED METAL SPECIMENS
J.B. CottonMany corrosion problems have to be investigated by post mortem examination, and it is often through the medium of such investigations that valuable progress has been made in the…
Salt‐Glazed Vitreous Clay Pipes
Felix SingerStoneware is probably the oldest, or one of the oldest, engineering materials. Two thousand years ago the Romans were using it for water conduits, and the wonderfully preserved…
PACKING FOR EXPORT: Some Comments from Industry
Last November we published an article entitled ‘Corrosion in Singapore,’ by Major P. A. Cartwright, a Senior Scientific Officer of the Operational Research Unit at GHQ., FARELF…
A NEW EPOXIDIZED OIL IN NON‐CORROSIVE PVC COMPOUNDS
THE breakdown of PVC under the action of heat or light involves the liberation of hydrochloric acid. There is evidence that this acid catalyses further breakdown and thus starts a…
CORROSION RESEARCH ROUND‐UP
GERMANY Sintered metal filters. Porous sintered metal filters have been used in the U.S.A. for some time and are now becoming increasingly important in Europe for chemical…
PRODUCT AND PROCESSES
De‐Rusting Pistol Scale and rust is quickly removed by the Jasons De‐Rusting Pistol. In this machine compressed air from any normal industrial type compressor drives hardened…
PEOPLE
Chair of Metallurgy, Birmingham. Professor E. C. Rollason has been appointed to the Chair of Industrial Metallurgy at Birmingham University with effect from September 1956…
Technical Literature
Aluminium in Contact with Other Materials. This booklet, recently published by the Aluminium Development Association, is No. 21 on their list of Information Bulletins. It is…
RECENT BRITISH PATENTS
Electroplating bright antimony. A bath additive of sodium, ammonium or ferrous fluoborate may be used as a brightener for antimony electro‐deposition. Aqueous boric acid or…
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