Abstract
THE partial spalling that occurs when a metal is cooled after high temperature oxidation has made it possible to make direct observations of the metal–oxide interface. Scanning electron microscopy, with its large depth of focus and perspective view, has permitted this interface to be studied at high magnification in the centre of specimens away from the edges.
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Wood, G. C., and Whittle, D. P., Corros. Sci., 4, 263 (1964).
Howes, V. R., Corros. Sci., 6, 549 (1966).
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HOWES, V. Observations of a Metal–Oxide Interface. Nature 216, 362 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216362a0
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