REVISION QUESTIONS

Corrosion OP-Monday

1. Is the electrical circuit in a corrosion reaction AC or DC?

 AC

2. Does corrosion occur at the cathode or at the anode?

 Anode

3. Name the three factors needed for corrosion to occur?

 Anode
 Cathode
 Electrolyte

4. What is meant by the term electrolyte?

5. What is corrosion?
6. In the Corrosion circuit do electrons flow from anode to
cathode?
7. Which gas is released at the cathode when the electrolyte is
water?
8. Which is the more noble metal, Steel or Aluminium?
9. Which is more Electronegative, Steel or Aluminium?
 Steel
10. If steel and copper were in contact in an electrolyte which
would corrode?
11. Name two common Hygroscopic Salts?
12. Name three metals used as sacrificial anodes on a steel
pipeline?
13. What is the approximate thickness of mill scale?
14. Which of the two metals would corrode if steel and zinc
were coupled?
15. Which other names relate to the galvanic list?
16. In which environment are you likely to encounter chloride
salts?
 Marine
17. Which three compounds together form mill scale?
18. If magnesium was coupled with zinc, which would
corrode?
19. In which environment would sulphate salts be found?
20. What is an osmotic blister?
21. What is an ion?
 Positive or negative charged atom

22. What is meant by polarization?

 Accum

23. Is an anode positive or negative?

 Positive

24. Can corrosion occur without an electrolyte?

 No

25. Name a sub atomic particle?

 Proton , neutron and electron

26. What is mill scale and when and where does it occur?
27. Name three factors, which can accelerate corrosion
reactions?
28. Why is it considered essential to remove mill scale prior to
painting?
29. Why does an un-coated steel plate corrode?
 Exposed to electrolyte

30. If corrosion occurs at anodic areas, why does steel

corrode evenly all over the surface?
 Alloying elements are uniformly spreaded; corrosion
occurs evenly all over the surface.