“…Because discontinuous alloy depletion also results in imperfect passivity, the breakdown of passive film leads to higher corrosion rate and contributes to the measured reactivation current/charge in the EPR technique. Therefore, a microstructural examination of the specimen after the EPR test is necessary and it has to Brought to you by | Western University Authenticated Download Date | 6/8/15 10:06 AM (Osozawa et al, 1966;Payer & Staehle, 1975;Pednekar & Smialowska, 1980;Altonen et al, 1983) Devine, 1990Devine, , 1998 (Mukherjee et al, 1996;Huang et al, 2004;Singh, 2008;Srivastava, 2006;Kozuh et al, 2008;Santillán et al, 2011) be ensured that the measured value is due to chromium depletion. Otherwise, the conclusions will be misleading.…”