the writer at one time held this belief
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Fig. 3. Corrosion on tube containing interior surface defects.
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W. Reuben Webster. “Interior surface defects on brass condenser tubes as a cause of corrosion.” Proceedings of the ASTM 17:2 (1917) : 204-211
Princeton copy, digitized April 30, 2010
epigram ex p 206 :
It has not been found possible to show that tubes which contained such interior surface defects were any more subject to corrosion than those which were free from them.
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as if a torso, or the surface of a planet, partially revealed. one of a suite of six such images.
tags:
corrosion; defects; interior surface defects; metallurgy; testing
W. R. Webster