Ramasubramanian, M., B. N. Popov, and R. E. White. 1996. “Inhibiting action of calcium nitrate on carbon steel rebars”. Proceedings of the Materials Engineering Conference 2: 1007-16.
Abstract
Corrosion rate studies were carried out on carbon steel rebar samples under different pH conditions and in the presence and absence of chloride ions in solution. Known amounts of calcium nitrite was added as an inhibitor and the mechanism of inhibition was studied by tracking both the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the system. The studies indicate that there is a competition of a corrosion and a passivation reaction, and the resulting open circuit potential depends on the relative strength of the corroding and passivating environments.
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