خوردگی سرب و آلیاژهای سربی

Corrosion of Lead and Lead Alloys

خوردگی سرب و آلیاژهای سربی

ABSTRACT

LEAD has such a successful record of service in exposure to the atmosphere and to water that its resistance to corrosion by these media is often taken for granted. Underground, thousands of kilometers of lead-sheathed cable and lead pipe give reliable long-term performance all over the world. In the chemical industry, lead is used in the corrosion-resistant equipment necessary for handling many chemicals. Batteries account for the largest use of lead and are the source of most recycled lead. General information on compositions, properties, and applications can be found in the article “Lead and Lead Alloys” in Properties and Selection: Nonferrous Alloys and Special-Purpose Materials, Volume 2 of ASM .The rate of corrosion is a function of the current flowing between the anodes and cathodes of the corrosion cell. Many factors and conditions can initiate or influence this flow of current. In the corrosion of a single metal, such as lead, local anodes and cathodes may be set up as a result of inclusions, inhomogeneities, stress variations, and differences in temperature. In galvanic corrosion, the anodic and cathodic sites are ondifferent metals, with the less noble metal (anode) corroding in preference to the more noble metal (cathode).