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Laboratory report on corrosion tests of a brass tube using various water solutions.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149a\3\ scan0030 | |
| Date | 28th July 1920 | |
| COPY. X.3678 BY C.Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} R.F.P. H13/EB5.8.20 Laboratory. X 3456 RADIATORS - BY8/H28.7.20. X.3678 Up to the present after five days, during which a brass tube has been in very hard water taken from a Chell-aston pump, there has been practically no action in spite of keeping at a temperature of about 95°C for one third of the time. As extreme cases, we have also taken .1% Sodium Hydrate solution, 1% Sodium Chloride solution and .1% sodium Carbonate solution, each, as in the hard water test, in the presence of a small pieceof mild steel and solder, and we have found that all these three are slightly effected, the greatest effect is with the 1% sodium Chloride solution, whereas the alkaline solutions do not appear to have anything like the same corrosive action. We are continuing these tests and will report again in about a week. Hard water is not really alkaline water, and we do not think a truly alkaline town water is likely to be found anywhere in the world. HCH. | ||