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Theory of the Nucleation of Pitting. Mechanism of the Local Depassivation of Metal

Volume 5, Number 1

Yu. A. Popov¹ and Saif A. Mouhammad²

¹State Research Center of the Russian Federation-Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, St. Vorontsovo Pole 10, Moscow (Russia)

²Department of Physics, College of Teachers, Makkah (Saudi Arabia)

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/msri/050101

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Electrochemical kinetics to the surface of the nucleation of pitting are examined. The role of its energy heterogeneity and kinetics of the auto-acceleration of the process of the local depassivation of the surface of metal, are discussed.

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Pitting; Local depassivation; metals

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