Advances in Corrosion Science and Technology

This series was organized to provide a forum for review papers in the area of corrosion. The aim of these reviews is to bring certain areas of corrosiou science and technology into a sharp focus. The volumes of this series are published approximately on a yearly basis and each contains three to five reviews. The articles in each volume are selected in such a way as to be of interest both to the corrosion scientists and the corrosion technologists. There is in fact a particular aim in juxtaposing these interests because of the importance of mutual interaction and interdisciplinarity so important in corrosion studies. It is hoped that the corrosion scientists in this way may stay abreast of the activities in corrosion technology and vice versa. In this series the term \corrosion\ is used in its very broadest sense. It includes therefore not only the degradation of metals in aqueous en­ vironment but also what is commonly referred to as \high-temperature oxidation. \ Further the plan is to be even more general than these topics; the series will include all solids and all environments. Today engineering solids include not only metals but glasses ionic solids polymeric solids and composites of these. Environments of interest must be extended to liquid metals a wide variety of gases nonaqueous electrolytes and other non­ aqueous liquids.