Abstract
Silicon nitride ceramics with Y 2O 3 and Al 2O 3 as sintering additives were corroded in 1 N sulphuric acid at 90 °C. Any classical corrosion rate model cannot describe the overall kinetics of the corrosion process successfully. At longer corrosions times a kinetic break occurs, after which slow linear corrosion kinetics prevail. The passivation is due to the formation of a defective silica sub-layer in the corrosion zone. We show that it is possible to enforce this passivation long before it would occur naturally by a simple hot drying (150 °C) procedure after a critical time. As consequence the total mass loss decreases by a factor of 2–3.
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