5. Conclusions

This article on aqueous corrosion of metals and alloys could only serve as an introduction to all the other articles dealing in greater detail either with aqueous corrosion of metals, or with the use of metals in relation to the risk of corrosion. Due to lack of space, we have had to skim over a large number of concepts. This article alone could be the subject of one of those huge books on corrosion. The aim was not to go into the subject in depth, but simply to give an idea of the main principles of corrosion, in the simplest, most natural way possible.

From these two basic cases - uniform corrosion and the three forms of localized corrosion - we can go on to construct the whole of the rest of corrosion, through interaction with metallurgy or with solid, fluid or contact mechanics, or even with specific environmental chemistries, as in bacterial corrosion. All...