Research Article
Inhibition of Mild Steel Corrosion in Hydrochloric Acid Solution by Ciprofloxacin Drug
Table 2
Calculated values of corrosion rate of mild steel in 0.1 M HCl solution in absence and presence of different concentrations of inhibitors.
| Time (days) | Corrosion rate, CR (mp/y) | Blank | 0.857 × 10−3 M | 1.71 × 10−3 M | 2.57 × 10−3 M |
| 1 | 0.0399 | 0.0148 | 0.0103 | 0.0074 | 2 | 0.0347 | 0.0103 | 0.0066 | 0.0059 | 3 | 0.0325 | 0.0079 | 0.0064 | 0.0054 | 4 | 0.0340 | 0.0070 | 0.0062 | 0.0048 | 5 | 0.0333 | 0.0062 | 0.0059 | 0.0050 | 6 | 0.0320 | 0.0059 | 0.0057 | 0.0044 |
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