Abstract
Hydrogen-promoted metastable pitting of iron and its development into stable pitting were first investigated by the combination of the electrochemical noise method and the scanning reference electrode technique (SRET). Time records of current noise show that hydrogen significantly increases the number of current fluctuations, inferring that hydrogen might increase the initiation of pitting, and hydrogen also increases the magnitude of current fluctuations, suggesting that hydrogen might promote the growth of metastable pits. In addition, the duration of the time period for initiation of metastable pitting on the charged specimen is longer than that on the uncharged specimen, supporting that the active sites which induce pitting on the charged specimen might be much more numerous than on the uncharged specimen. An analysis of the power spectrum density shows that the level of the frequency-independent plateau of the charged specimen is higher than that of the uncharged specimen and the roll-off frequency t...
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