CORROSION RESEARCH ROUND‐UP

GERMANY ‘Phenol’ corrosion of telephone cables. The lead coats of telephone cables are often protected by bituminised paper strips and jute cloth. This does not provide any protection against corrosion. The cables corrode very easily and they usually seem to succumb to the so‐called ‘phenol’ corrosion. As it was not possible to reproduce ‘phenol’ corrosion in the laboratory, it was assumed that effect might be caused by jute.