1. It doesn't take much corrosion to reduce the solderability.
2. It's the base metal that will corrode
3. My wedding ring, after 49 years, this year, is a lot thinner than it
was. Who can say whether the wear is purely mechanical abrasion or
partially corrosion at molecular levels, bearing in mind that potential
corrosion products would probably be easier to wear off?
4. In this country, many bronze age gold artefacts in the Cyprus Museum
are visibly corroded after being buried for 3 or 4 millennia: granted I
have no idea of the purity of the gold, but I imagine it is reasonably
high from the brilliance of the pieces.
5. Analogically, 100% pure iron does not rust. It requires an impurity,
such as an iron carbide crystal, forming an electrochemical couple,
moisture and probably CO2 to allow rusting (corrosion) to occur.
Anyway, it was just a hypothetical thought!!!
Brian
Hernefjord Ingemar wrote:
> So, a gold/copper alloy wedding ring will fall apart if your finger is wet...hmmmm...but it will take some time, wuntit?
> /Inge
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> Can I add a wee bittie more hypothesis to the arguments? The electrochemical potentials of gold and tin differ by 1.8295 V, which is boooody enormous. In the presence of humidity, it is conceivable that important corrosion currents could flow between gold-rich and tin-rich areas on the surface...
>
> ???
>
> Brian
>
> Werner Engelmaier /* wrote:
>> Hi Inge,
>> I visited Gerd Becker twice in Swedenâ besides being a great guy, he was of
>> course Eicsson's soldering guru.
>>
>> Werner
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