Introduction

Corrosion is a big field with metals that can be corrode

or resisting the corrode . This report about metals and how
we can represent a data about the metals and from the
data we can know everything about the metal . in the
beginning representing definition about what we use in
the laboratory. After that we jump to the sample of the
experiment and what should we do before starting the
experiments and what is the type of the metal and little
information about it. Then showing how to connect the
wires with each other and showing some pictures . After
that showing the result of our calculation and represented
on a figure. The data is presented in four experiments .
each experiments has two figure with data, One from our
calculation and the other from different group and find the
reason behind the different in data with the other group ,
The data going to show which metal is rusting and which
is not or the two can be rusting .

Definitions
ocp:
ocp is short for Open circuit potential which is one of the
electorchimal methods that tend to measure the corrosion
performance of organic coating. [1]
Active:
Metals that has law resistance to corrosion and oxidation
Noble:
Metals that has resistance to corrosion and oxidation such
as (platinum).
Passive :

The materials are in the lower area of the oxidizing power.

Trans passive:
The materials are in the high concentration of oxidizers .

Reference electrode:
is used in measuring the working electrode potential of an
electrochemical cell.[2]
Counter electrode:
is used for receiving the current that come from the work
electrode and given it to the device which is the potential
state.
Work electrode:
Is used for giving the current to the counter electrode.
Potential state:
Is An electronic hardware that measures and controls the
voltage difference between a Working Electrode and a
Reference Electrode. It measures the current flow
between the Working and Counter Electrodes. The device
as shown in pic(2).[3]

Sample of experiment
Sample of experiment is about the metals which we are
going to use is stainless steel 316 , stainless steel 202 and
Ag/AgCl (silver silver chloride).

The connection of the experiment

Before doing anything first, we Clean the tap water by
sand paper and clean it by acetone to move oxide part .
After that we begin our connection. Frist we brought the
tap water and put the silver silver chloride in it , After
that we brought the holder to hold the sample so it cant
be move.
Then we connect
counter electrode and
reference electrode in the silver silver chloride , Then we
connected to the potential state device and in the
computer . after we finish the connection we run the
program which is (nova 1.6) on the computer, Then it will
stop at steady state and shows all the result. Picture (1)
&(2)
shows
whole
connection.
.

Pic(1): the connection of the experiment

Pic(2): the potential state

Result
Experiment 1 (tab water + ss202) :
Experiment one is about tab water (1000 ml) + stain steel
202 . This experiment had done to show that the metal
can be passive, Active, Noble or trans passive . the
connection as explained before and the graph of this
experiment is:
-0.1
-0.1

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60

80

100

120

140

-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1

Fig(1): tab water + ss202

Dissection:
As shown in the graph :
1- The metal is active .
2- The graph stopped at steady state at (-0.0983 volt120 second).
3- The passive region (-0.1001 to -0.099).
4- Trans passive start at -0.099
5- 0cp (-0.098223)
-0.1
-0.1 0

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30

35

40

-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1

Fig(2): tab water + ss202

Dissection :
This is another result for the same metal and conditions.
As you can see there is difference between the two graph .
as shown in graph :
1- The metal is active .
2- The graph stopped at steady state at (-0.0987 volt32second).
3- Trans passive start at (-0.09869 volt )
4- 0cp (-0.0986938).

Experiment 2 (tab water + ss202+sea water):

Experiment two is about tab water (1000 ml) + stain steel
202+ sea water (20 ml) . This experiment had done to
show that the metal can be passive,active,noble or trans
passive . the connection as explained before and the
graph of this experiment is :
0
-0.5

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60

80

100

120

140

-1
-1.5
-2
-2.5
-3

Fig(3): tab water + ss202+seawater

Dissection:
As shown in the graph :
1- The metal is active .
2- Ocp (-1.09468 volt).

-0.08
-0.08

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100

120

140

-0.09
-0.09
-0.09
-0.09
-0.09
-0.09
-0.09

Fig(4): tab water + ss202+seawater

Dissection:
This another result for the same metal and conditions. As
you can see there is difference between the two graph . As
shown in the graph :
1- The metal is active .
2- The graph stopped at steady state at (-0.0859 volt121 second).
3- The passive region (-0.0885 to -0.0863).
4- Trans passive start at -0-.0863.
5- 0cp (-0.0858154 volt).

Experiment 3 (tab water + ss316):

Experiment 3 is about tab water (1000ml)+ stain steel 316
. This experiment had done to show that the material can
be passive,active,noble or trans passive . the connection
as explained before and the graph of this experiment is:

0
0

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100

120

140

-0.2
-0.4
-0.6
-0.8
-1
-1.2
-1.4

Fig(5): tab water + ss316

Dissection:
As shown in the graph :
1- The metal is active .
2- The graph stopped at steady state at (-1.1 volt- 120
second).
3- 0cp (-0.012153 volt ) .
-0.03
-0.03 0

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60

80

100

-0.03
-0.03
-0.03
-0.03
-0.04
-0.04
-0.04
-0.04

Fig(6): tab water + ss316

Dissection:

120

This another result for the same material and conditions.

As you can see there is difference between the two graph .
As shown in the graph :
1- The metal is active .
2- The graph stopped at steady state at (-0.0352997
volt- 114 second).
3- The passive region (-0.0345 to -0.0352).
4- Trans passive start at -0.0352
5- 0cp (-0.0352971 volt).

Experiment 4 (tab water + ss316+ sea water):

Experiment 4 is about tab water (1000 ml) + stain steel
316+sea water(20 ml) . This experiment had done to show
that the material can be passive, active, noble or trans
passive . the connection as explained before and the
graph of this experiment is:
0.02
0.02
0.02
0.01
0.01
0.01
0.01
0.01
0
0
0
0

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100

120

140

Fig(7): tab water + ss316+seawater

Dissection :
As shown in the graph:
1- The metal is noble.
2- No passivity.

3- 0cp (0.0178837 volt) .

Fig(8): tab water + ss316+seawater

Dissection :
This another result for the same material and conditions.
As you can see there is difference between the two graph .
As shown in the graph:
1- The meal is active.
2- Passivity region (-0.021295)
3- Trans passive region (-0.021301)
4- 0cp (-0.0213008 volt) .

Conclusion
After taking this laboratory I know now what is ocp ,
Potentiostat and how it connected with the wires . Now
Based on my calculation I found that stainless steel + tab
water is active , stainless steel +tab water seawater is
active, stainless steel +tab water is active and final
experiment stainless steel+ tab water +seawater is
noble . based on the other group calculation I found That
stainless steel + tab water is active , stainless steel +tab
water seawater is active, stainless steel +tab water is
active and final experiment stainless steel+ tab water
+seawater is active. I have several reasons behind that
there are different calculation between the two groups .
First
The wires maybe not connected wright ,
the

Potentiostat is did not run wright maybe we should tested

first on metal we know there value to know that
everything is wright , Or the material Ag/Agcl expired to
air for a long time.

Reference
[1]http://www.scientiairanica.com/PDF/Articles/00000501/
mohamad%20atar.pdf
[2]http://events.nace.org/library/corrosion/References/Intro
duction.asp
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiostat.