Excerpt from Corrosion of Ferrous Metals in Acid Soils Since the soils of the United States are diverse, it is to be expected that the causes of corrosion would differ in different classes of soils, and that methods used in estimating corrosiveness should be adapted to the general class of soil to be tested. It has been _shown' that m certain arid and semiarid regions measurements of the electrical resistivity of soils are useful as one means of predicting corrosion In more humid regions, such as the eastern United States, where the soils have developed varying degrees of acidity, a relation between corrosiveness and soil acidity might be expected, as has been suggested by one of the authors (2. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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