“…By the use of these substances the rate of deterioration of metals in water and aqueous salt solutions has frequently been reduced to small or negligible values. It has long been known that if iron or steel be subjected to the action of a strongly oxidizing agent, such as chromic acid or soluble chromic salts, the metal is rendered passive, and the mechanism has been attributed to the deposition of a thin oxide film impervious to further attack (3,5,6,8,9,11,12). Other authors (1, 2, 7, 9,10,13,15,19,20,21,23) indicate that chromates retard the corrosion of iron even in the presence of salts such as chlorides and sulfates, and somewhat in dilute acids.…”