The electrochemistry of corrosion and its prevention. Part I: basic electrochemistry

Lecturer, Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde The author has been teaching corrosion and its prevention since 1959 and during the past twenty years has come to the conclusion that there are still many people entering the corrosion prevention industry who have had no formal teaching in corrosion and operate, often remarkably well, purely on a rule of thumb basis. To help rectify this situation, the approach taken by Mr. Stewart in this series is based on his current lecture notes at the University of Strathclyde. He deliberately avoids the use of “as can be seen in Fig. 1”, but prefers to present explanatory diagrams adjacent to the text (which we are trying to follow in the layout of the articles) as in the manner they would be presented on the blackboard. Mr. Stewart was co‐author with Mr. D. S. Tulloch of the book “Corrosion and Prevention”, published by Macmillan in 1968. He has recently retired as Chairman of the Scottish Branch of the Institution of Corrosion Science and Technology. — Editor.