The arsenic attains to reduce to the minimum the corrosion of the magnesium
11 December 2013
An international study in which it has participated the
“The magnesium is the metallic structural element lighter that knows , is roughly 40% lighter that the aluminium, by what his potential in the industry is immense. However, in the actuality, his use sees very limited by his high speed of corrosion. In this study have seen that small quantities of arsenic have a strong impact in the reaction catódica, ralentizándola or ‘poisoning it', to levels never before reached by means of other aleantes”, explains the researcher of the CSIC Alejandro Samaniego, of the National Centre of Metallurgical Investigations.
According to his authors, the results of this work could apply in the car industry and electronic, since the new alloy would serve to lighten the weight of the components, increasing his energetic efficiency when diminishing the consumption of fuel, what would reduce the broadcasts of gases of effect invernadero.