On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:14:26 -0400, "R.Glueck" <glueck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>I'll be interested to read this, but I think the authority of numerous
>scientists and structural engineers might carry more weight. I suppose I
>haven't given the authors credit, having not yet read their work. It
seems
>improbably that the rusticles could be something other than iron
consuming
>bacteria. If the rusticles are swept away, what remains of the metal
>underneath?
The authors are metallurgists. Foeke is a staff materials scientist at
the National Instutute of Standards and Technology, Jennifer Mccarty
has a doctorate in Materials Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins.
her doctoral dissertation was on the metallurgy of Titanic's rivets.
The rusticles are, indeed, iron consuming bacteria, but Foeke reckons
that the iron they are consuming is from the normal products of
corrosion - the bacteria are not directly causing the corrosion
themselves.
Regards
Doug Urquhart
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