Local metallization

Figure 5.8 Heavily pitted surface of a mild steel cooling water return line. Note the deep localized metal loss surrounded by aureoles of rust. Pitting is common when oxygen concentration varies greatly over time.

Figure 6.26 Small, pitlike depressions near the center of lightly etched regions. Each lightly etched region was covered by a gelatinous soap deposit in service. Note how the deeper, more localized metal loss occurred away from the lightly etched border.

Figure 7.24 Deep groove in region of localized metal loss on a copper tube. Grooving was caused by carbonic acid containing high concentrations of dissolved oxygen.

When very high velocities are encountered, metal loss from erosion-corrosion can be general. T ically, however, erosion-corrosion produces localized metal loss in immediate proximity to the disrupted flow. Smooth, rolling, wavelike surface contours are often produced, or distinct, horseshoe-shaped depressions (Fig. 11.1) or comet tails... 

Highly localized metal loss at the valve seat is apparent in Fig. 11.6. Figure 11.29 shows the same component close up. Wasted surfaces have a bright, metallic luster free of corrosion products or deposits. Metal loss along the edge of the throttling nut is also apparent (Fig. 11.30). 

Severe, highly localized metal loss on the roll bearing-retainer plate and associated attachment hardware is illustrated in Figs. 11.31 and 11.32. Figure 11.33 illustrates the arrangement of these components in a continuous caster roll system. Note the smooth surface contours at the edge of the plate. Close examination of these surfaces under a low-power stereoscopic microscope revealed fine, wavelike striations. 

Figure 11.32 Severe localized metal loss on bolt threads and on nuts.

Types of damage can be classified as uniform or localized metal removal, corrosion cracking or detrimental effects to the environment from the corrosion products. Local attack can take the form of shallow pits, pitting, selective dissolution of small microstructure regions of the material or cracking. Detrimental effects are certainly not the case with buried pipelines, but have to be considered for environments in vessels and containers. It is usual, where different results of reactions lead... 

In these boilers, various interrelated, complex surface chemistry reactions may occur at the metal-water interface, which (apart from the development of a desirable protective magnetite film) can lead to the formation of unwanted deposits. These surface reactions are influenced by the specific heat flux, operating temperatures, and the areas and degree of local metal stress resulting within a particular boiler. 

Cathodic protection is a useful supplement to other forms of water treatment, as a general corrosion inhibiting device in HW boilers, or where specific design configurations can lead to inadequately protected localized metal in steam boilers. Where BW makeup demands are minimal and boiler output is fairly constant, cathodic protection devices can also provide some measure of protection against hardness scales. Calcium carbonate salt is formed as a floc-culant or soft sludge rather than a hard scale, due to the peptizing effects of a zinc hydroxide complex formed from zinc ions in alkaline BW. 

Each local metal-ligand interaction in a complex might include a contribution from K bonding. We now remove the restriction of only local <7 bonding adopted above. 

FIGURE 36.1 Schematic illustration of some electrochemical techniques employed for surface nanostructuring (a) tip-induced local metal deposition (b) defect nanostructuring (c) localized electrochemical nucleation and growth d) electronic contact nanostructuring. 

FIGURE 364 (a) Scheme of the various stages involved in tip-induced local metal... 

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It has also to be remembered that the band model is a theory of the bulk properties of the metal (magnetism, electrical conductivity, specific heat, etc.), whereas chemisorption and catalysis depend upon the formation of bonds between surface metal atoms and the adsorbed species. Hence, modern theories of chemisorption have tended to concentrate on the formation of bonds with localized orbitals on surface metal atoms. Recently, the directional properties of the orbitals emerging at the surface, as discussed by Dowden (102) and Bond (103) on the basis of the Good-enough model, have been used to interpret the chemisorption behavior of different crystal faces (104, 105). A more elaborate theoretical treatment of the chemisorption process by Grimley (106) envisages the formation of a surface compound with localized metal orbitals, and in this case a weak interaction is allowed with the electrons in the metal. 

The recognizability and transferability of localized metal hydride bond and antibond NBOs is also quite high, as demonstrated in Fig. 4.10. The gradual decrease... 

The forms of the localized metal-carbon pi bond and antibond NBOs are again highly recognizable and transferable from species to species. This transferability is... 

The general features described above for the metal dusting corrosion of Inconel 600 can also be extended to the other Ni based alloys except that the corrosion intensity decreases with increase of Cr content. The rate of corrosion is also a strong function of temperature. The maximum local metal dusting rate is plotted as a function of temperature in Fig.5. It is interesting to note that a maximum in... 

A shadow-mask technique has been applied for the local metal deposition to exclude metal residues on other designs processed on the same wafer (Fig. 4.2b). Such metal residues may be caused by imperfections in the patterned resist due to topographical features on the processed CMOS wafers or dust particles. The metal film is only deposited in those areas on the wafer, where it is needed for electrode coverage on the microhotplates. This also renders the lift-off process easier since no closed metal film is formed on the wafer, so that the acetone has a large surface to attack the photoresist. Another advantage of the local metal lift-off process is its full compatibility with the fabrication sequence of chemical sensors based on other transducer principles [20]. 

Till Geochemical Results Ni-Cu ores in the TNB are dominated by pentlandite, pyrrhotite, pyrite and millerite (Burnham et al. 2003 Layton-Matthews et al. 2007) and thus local metal-rich till is Ni-rich (up to 3760 ppm). Till samples that contain the highest Ni contents also contain up to 50,000 pentlandite grains/10 kg in the 0.25-0.5 mm fraction. Till with elevated Cu values (215 ppm) at the Thompson and Pipe mines contain up to 2500 chalcopyrite grains/10 kg. TNB ore also contains Te, As, Sb, Co, Cd, Se and Bi-bearing mineral species, which are likely the source of elevated... 

Fig. 9 STM image (48 x 53 A Ft = 5.3 mV 1-28 nA) showing a M0S2 nanocluster synthesized on a reconstructed Au(l 11) surface. The bright brim extending all the way around the edge is due to localized metallic edge states. Reprinted figure with permission from Bollinger et ai, Physical Review Letters, 2001, 87, 196803. " American Physical Society.

A simple application of Hubbard s criteria to the actinide metals series, with a non-hybridized Wf, would tend to indicate Pu as the first localized metal. Two complications, however, occur for the actinide metals ... 

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