“…Due to the health and environmental pressure, some environmentally friendly processes have been developed in alkaline solutions mainly containing inorganic electrolytes such as silicate [1,[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17], aluminate [2,5,6] and borate [4,5,7,11,15,18]. At present, some organic additives, for example, triethanolamine [4], glycerol [9,10,12], benzotriazole [11], surfactants [12], ethylene glycol [13,14], citrate [15,18,19], sodium acetate [20] and phytic acid [21] have been used in MAO on magnesium alloys. 8-Hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ), one of the nitrogen-heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with moderate toxicity in rats (oral LD50 1200 mg/kg) [22], is widely used in many areas.…”