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CORROSION COMMENTARY
SPRINGS TO MIND. In any mechanism incorporating a spring, the spring is the most highly stressed component and therefore the part most likely to fail if not properly designed and…
CORROSION RESISTANCE OF TITANIUM
A.C. WoodIn 1950, only a handful of British manufacturers had ever considered the possibility of using titanium as a structural metal. They were all in the aircraft industry, where the…
STAINLESS‐STEEL CORROSION BY DILUTE NITRIC ACID: at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures
M.L. Pearce, V.S. GriffithsStainless steel has been found to exhibit passivity in dilute nitric acid at 300°C. The rate of corrosion for passive conditions is unaffected by increase in temperature or small…
Vapour‐phase Inhibition of Atmospheric Corrosion
S.E. SextonMethods for combating atmospheric corrosion are various, but until recently most have depended upon preventing air and moisture from contacting metal surfaces. Vapour‐phase…
★ Letters to the Editor ★
DEAR SIR, Your article in the March issue headed as above has aroused considerable interest amongst the writer and his colleagues. As members of the company who pioneered…
NEWS OF INDUSTRY
Rocket Fuel Stops Corrosion. In Hungary, hydrazine, which was one of the fuel constituents of the German V2 rockets in the last war and which is now used for space rockets, is…
PRODUCTS and PROCESSES: PROVIDING INDUSTRY WITH THE MEANS TO COMBAT CORROSION
Automatic Galvanizing. Galvanizing of small parts is carried out automatically by the rotary machine, illustrated on this page, made by F. Blasberg of Solingen‐Merscheid. The…
NEEW FACILITIES FOR RESEARCH: Laboratories for Coil Spring Research in Sheffield
THE Coil Spring Federation Research Organisation laboratories at Doncaster Street, Sheffield, were opened on March 24 by Sir Harry Melville, K.C.B., F.R.S., secretary of the…
B.R. Research Laboratories in London
New laboratories, built on the site of the former Alexandra Palace railway station at Muswell Hill, London, were formally opened last March by Sir Brian Robertson, chairman of the…
PEOPLE
Monsanto Moves. SIR WILLIAM GARRETT has relinquished his executive responsibilities with Monsanto Chemicals Ltd., but will continue as a member of the board. Since 1957 Sir…
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