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I SHOULD like to support and emphasize Dr. J. C. Hudson's comments on Major P. A. Cartwright's communication in Nature of October 15, p. 748. As the figures (obtained at the Ministry of Supply Tropical Testing Establishment, Nigeria; see Ambler and Bain, J. App. Chem., 5, 437 (1955)) in the table below show, corrosion at two sites of roughly equal humidity may range from ‘highest anywhere’ to less than in rural Britain, the operative variant being salinity.
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AMBLER, H. Humidity and Corrosion. Nature 176, 1082 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/1761082b0
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