corrosion rate
Also contains definition of
: corrosion current
The
amount of substance
transferred per unit time at a specified surface. Using Faraday's law, the
corrosion
rate,
,
can be formally expressed as an
electric current
which at the
corrosion potential
is called the corrosion current,
,
e.g. for the anodic
dissolution
of one component of a material with
in
and
in
one obtains
,
being the
charge number
of the
electrode reaction
and
the
Faraday constant
.
Source:
PAC, 1989,
61
, 19
(Electrochemical corrosion nomenclature (Recommendations 1988))
on page 20