In message <5BE799EB4B1A424BA16063A6C0D9D6DB@Pete97219Compaq>, dated
Tue, 26 Mar 2013, Pete Perkins <[email protected]> writes:
Complication, obfuscation and despair... How can something so
simple be made so complicated.
As I explained, simply by a convener not being a chemist and
misinterpreting the somewhat off-base information supplied to him. Over
the years I have found the safety committees quite resistant to change,
especially when dealing with disciplines outside their direct
experience, such as chemistry (n-hexane) and electrochemistry - the list
of contact potentials.
Having taken several years to correct an obvious (to a chemist)
ten-times error in one figure, I asked some experts in SC48B about the
usefulness of this table. Frankly, the result was laughter - it's not
very useful, because it gives meaningful indications about corrosion
only under clean laboratory conditions. In the real world there are
always other things present - notably chlorides - which have profound
effects.
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