The Mylius Thermometric Technique.A Review of a Simple Corrosion Testing Method of Wide Potentialities

摘要

MYLIUS' THERMOMETRIC TECHNIQUE was developed in 1922 to assess the corrodability of aluminium alloys.Strips of the metals were made to react with known volumes of HC1 solutions and the variation of the temperature of the system was followed with time.Following an induction period,the temperature rose to reach a maximum value.The corrodability of the metal was expressed in terms of the integral rate of temperature rise per minute.The Mylius test attracted little attention for almost 40 years.It was revived in the author's laboratory,where it was proposed as a rapid method for evaluating corrosion inhibitors.Since then,the technique underwent rapid development and wide expansion.It was applied to study the dissolution of zinc,iron,copper,nickel,tin and lead in a variety of attacking media.