Journal
CORROSION SCIENCE
Volume 48, Issue 3, Pages 709-726Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2005.02.016
Keywords
pitting corrosion; steel; green rust; micro-Raman spectroscopy; electrochemical microprobe
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Pitting corrosion processes of carbon steels in 0.1 M NaHCO3+NaCl aqueous solutions induce rapidly the precipitation of Fe(II)-containing phases. The mechanisms leading to those transient compounds were studied by coupling classical electrochemical methods (cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry) with electrochemical microprobes and analyses by micro-Raman spectroscopy. Anodic polarisation above the breakdown potential induces the formation of a white corrosion product, identified as iron carbonate by Raman spectroscopy. The activity of a given pit, followed by Scanning Vibrating Electrode Technique, reaches a maximum before to decrease, in agreement with the evolution of the overall Current density that stabilises whereas the number of pits increases. Iron carbonate is oxidised by dissolved O-2 into the hydroxycarbonate Green Rust. The study of the oxidation of aqueous suspensions of Fe(II) compounds precipitated from FeCl(2)center dot 4H(2)O, NaOH and NaHCO3 solutions allowed to clarify the mechanisms, that are governed by the concentration ratios [Fe-aq(2+)]/[OH-] and [HCO3-]/[OH-]. The results were confronted to a thermodynamic approach. (C) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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