Physico-chemical characteristics of corrosion scales in old iron pipes

P Sarin1, V L Snoeyink, J Bebee

  • 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801, USA.

Water Research
|July 27, 2001
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