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FOR many years investigations into the films formed during the oxidation of iron have been proceeding in two corrosion laboratories, situated respectively in the Chemical Research Laboratory at Teddington and the Department of Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. Recently two pieces of work, undertaken quite independently but almost concurrently, have had a similar objective, namely, the elucidation of certain phenomena in the oxidation of iron around 200° C. Although the methods employed have been different, the two sets of results are essentially complementary. The Teddington work on this occasion has been collaborative, conclusions based on electron diffraction technique having been contributed from the Metallurgy Division of the National Physical Laboratory. Since the Cambridge and Teddington results present pictures of the same subject as viewed from different angles, it has been thought convenient to print in juxtaposition the preliminary accounts of the two investigations which follow.
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EVANS, U. Oxidation of iron in the range 100–400°C. Nature 164, 909–910 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164909a0
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