Lead potential decay

It is much less clear how the adsorption leads to such a dramatic change as a potential decay of several hundred volts, occurring within milliseconds. This short time is difficult to associate with film thinning, as assumed in the adsorption mechanism of pit initiation. It is not only that the mechanism of dissolution changes so much that the current efficiency falls from virtually 100% to virtually zero, but also that the resistance of the oxide decreases by orders of magnitude. The control of the process is, to a great extent, taken over by the events at the O/S interface, judging from the capacitance values measured,115 which approach those typical of the electrochemical double layer (cf. Fig. 22). 

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MacroceU currents can also affect electrochemical measurements carried out on reinforcement In particular, macroceU currents can generate in stmctures under cathodic protection when the current is switched off during depolarisation tests (Section 20.3.8). Different polarization conditions of different parts of the reinforcement can lead to the onset of a macroceU that can alter the result of the potential decay measurement of reinforcement [5]. 

In 1879, von Helmholtz proposed that all of the counterions are lined up parallel to the charged surface at a distance of about one molecular diameter (Figure 10.5). The electrical potential decreases rapidly to zero within a very short distance from the charged surface in this model. Such a model treated the electrical doublelayer as a parallel-plate condenser, and the calculations of potential decay were based on simple capacitor equations. However, thermal motion leads to the ions being diffused in the vicinity of the surface, and this was not taken into account in the Helmholtz model. 

The most common probe is the embeddable half cell, A number of formulations are used but the most popular is the silver/silver chloride cell (Figure 6,20). Mercury/mercury oxide, lead/lead oxide and other formulations are also commercially available as well as carbon, coated titanium and lead. These last three are relative rather than absolute references, This means that they may stay stable over a few hours for a potential decay measurement, but the absolute values of the potential measured cannot be relied upon. 

The moving ions drag the liquid along, resulting in a flow of liquid in the same direction. Thus, any liquid element, illustrated in Figure 10.2b, moves under the influence of an electric force/ i. However, the movement is retarded by internal friction in the liquid. It leads to a stationary situation where the friction force/f compensates/, ,H-/fj = 0. Then, the liquid moves at constant velocity./ei scales with the charge in the volume element and is, because of Equation 9.15, related to the potential decay in the solution. In this context, it should be noted that when the thickness of the electrical double layer is much smaller than the radius of the capillary, the wall can be considered as flat./, can be expressed as... 

The stability of an emulsion system towards flocculation and coalescence may be better understood by considering the forces between emulsion droplets. These forces arise from a range of phenomena and vary from system to system. The most ubiquitous of these forces is the van der Waals force of attraction, which arises from momentary fluctuations in the charge distribution across molecules, giving them a flickering dipolar nature. The induction of complementary dipoles in adjacent molecules leads to a weak attractive force between them. A similar attraction occurs between colloidal particles, and the resulting potential decays with the inverse square of the separation between the droplets, as shown schematically in Figure 4.2. 

Using the curves for the potential decay at nonporous graphite anodes (electrode graphite impregnated with lead chloride), we have obtained the value of capacity 31 to 37 jjF per square centimeter of the visible surface. This value corresponds to typical values of the double layer capacity for a positively charged surface. Consequently, in our case the adsorption capacity is practically absent, i.e. the coverage of the surface by adsorbed chlorine is low. This... 

O, a large current is detected, which decays steadily with time. The change in potential from will initiate the very rapid reduction of all the oxidized species at the electrode surface and consequently of all the electroactive species diffrising to the surface. It is effectively an instruction to the electrode to instantaneously change the concentration of O at its surface from the bulk value to zero. The chemical change will lead to concentration gradients, which will decrease with time, ultimately to zero, as the diffrision-layer thickness increases. At time t = 0, on the other hand, dc-Jdx) r. will tend to infinity. The linearity of a plot of i versus r... 

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The capacitance determined from the initial slopes of the charging curve is about 10/a F/cm2. Taking the dielectric permittivity as 9.0, one could calculate that initially (at the OCP) an oxide layer of the barrier type existed, which was about 0.6 nm thick. A Tafelian dependence of the extrapolated initial potential on current density, with slopes of the order of 700-1000 mV/decade, indicates transport control in the oxide film. The subsequent rise of potential resembles that of barrier-layer formation. Indeed, the inverse field, calculated as the ratio between the change of oxide film thickness (calculated from Faraday s law) and the change of potential, was found to be about 1.3 nm/V, which is in the usual range. The maximum and the subsequent decay to a steady state resemble the behavior associated with pore nucleation and growth. Hence, one could conclude that the same inhomogeneity which leads to pore formation results in the localized attack in halide solutions. 

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