Abstract
THE research by Mr. W. H. J. Vernon on the tarnishing and fogging of metals, presented to the Faraday Society on December 17, 1923, of which some account has already appeared in our columns (NATURE, February 2, 1924, p. 178), has now been published with a full report of the discussion which took place on that occasion, together with certain communications since received. The discussion is of a thoroughly broad and representative character, and many points of view and interesting items of information were contributed. Mr. Lancaster mentioned that although it was generally considered that the purest zinc was the most difficult to dissolve in acids, Mr. Rigg, late of the New Jersey Zinc Company, had found that the purest zinc they had produced for the United States Bureau of Standards was almost explosive under acid treatment; in other words, the rate of solution was very rapid. Taken as a whole, the discussion and contributions add decidedly to the value of the report, and general unanimity was expressed that the most hopeful way of solving the practical problem of preventing the tarnishing and fogging of metals was to attack it by laboratory experiments carried out on fundamental lines of scientific inquiry.
First (Experimental) Report to the Atmospheric Corrosion Research Committee (of the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association).
W. H. J.
Vernon
By. Presented to the Faraday Society, December 17, 1923; with Full Report of Discussion. Pp. 839–934. (London: The Faraday Society, 1924.) 7s. 6d. net.
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First (Experimental) Report to the Atmospheric Corrosion Research Committee (of the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association) . Nature 115, 417 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115417a0
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