Oxidation of metals and alloys
Dry corrosion of metals - Mechanisms
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Oxidation of metals and alloys
Dry corrosion of metals - Mechanisms

Authors : Laurent ANTONI, Alain GALERIE

Publication date: December 10, 2003 | Lire en français

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2. Oxidation of metals and alloys

Oxidation has been taken as an example for the theoretical study of dry corrosion. These results can be transposed to sulfidation, carburization, nitridation or chlorination.

2.1 Different types of oxide layers

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2.1.1 Germination layers

From the first moments following contact between oxygen and an ideally clean metal surface, physisorption of O 2 occurs, followed by dissociative chemisorption leading to adsorbed monooxygen. Two-dimensional oxide...

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