“…and high temperatures shows that the dissolution-precipitation mechanism (11-12) which most probably accounts for the formation and evolution of peaks III and V, is no longer operating above 55~ It is also clearly seen that peak II should be attributed to the active-passive behavior of iron, the inference being in agreement with that of Armstrong and Baurhoo (5). As shown by Parkins (13), the potential region of caustic cracking of mild steel coincides with that of the activepassive transition of the steel, so that cracking susceptibility should be by consideration of peak II, obtained at low and high scan rates, rather than that of peak III, as it has incorrectly been suggested earlier (14).…”