CORROSION RESEARCH ROUND‐UP

Wettability and corrosion inhibition. In the course of an ambitious research programme on corrosion inhibitors and related problems, the Institute of Chemistry at Ferrara, Italy, has investigated certain special aspects of corrosion inhibition in the presence of wetting agents. It would appear that the surface conditions have an important bearing on the mechanism of the corrosion phenomena, and that the action of the wetting agents tends to modify the distribution of the local cells so that the corrosion mechanism is re‐orientated.