Rust Preventing Power of Certain Electrolytes. 
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solution may serve to protect iron from rusting whenever it comes 
in contact with aqueous solutions of the common salts such as sul- 
phates, chlorides, etc., which exert in anodic action a relatively great 
tendency toward metal dissolution. 
Details concerning the apparatus and experimental results as well 
as detailed discussion of the bearing of these facts upon the theories 
of electrolysis and corrosion may be found in the following publica- 
tions which have been sent out from time to time from this labora- 
tory. Of course it is needless to say that my work on this subject is 
still in progress. 
Am. Chem. J. 41:226. 
Am. Chem. J. 41 :232. 
Jour. Phys. Chem. 14:665. 
Jour. Phys. Chem. 14:720. 
References to publications by other workers on this subject will 
be found in the above publications. 
Chemical Laboratory, The University of Texas, Oct. 1908. 
