Abstract:
Annually, large amounts of copper and its alloys are being lost due to scaling at high temperature in the oxidising atmosphere. This attracted the attention of many workers to study the oxidation kinetics under various conditions. Studies of reaction rates and kinetics provide valuable information about the reaction mechanism and the rate limiting step of the total reaction. The scaling resistance of pure copper was found to improve by the addition of various alloying elements such as Aluminium, Silicon, Tin etc. The majority of the published work refers to the oxidation of pure copper yet some work has been reported on the influence of various other metals on its
oxidation kinetics
