Research Article
Insight into Anticorrosion Mechanism of Ampicillin on Mild Steel in Acidic Environment: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Approach
Table 1
Corrosion descriptors obtained from the polarization test at 298 K.
| Concentration (ppm) | −Ecorr (mV/SCE) | −βc (mV/dec) | βa (mV/dec) | Icorr (μA/cm2) | IE (%) |
| 0.0 | 467.0 | 44.0 | 58.9 | 127.2 | — | 20.0 | 456.6 | 32.1 | 49.4 | 25.4 | 80.0 | 40.0 | 451.1 | 38.0 | 40.1 | 22.1 | 82.6 | 60.0 | 455.5 | 32.6 | 44.3 | 21.2 | 83.3 | 80.0 | 450.2 | 37.7 | 44.7 | 20.1 | 84.2 | 100.0 | 454.3 | 30.9 | 47.0 | 19.2 | 84.9 |
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