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Metal
Parts of Products (Corrosion Resistance)
United States
ASTM B117-07 Standard Practice
for Operating Salt Spray (Fog) Apparatus
The
BS 1224:1970 / BS 7479:1991
International
ISO 9227: 1990
Test Parameters
of ASTM B117-07
ASTM
B117-07 provides a controlled corrosive environment which has been utilized to
produce relative corrosion resistance information for specimens of metals and
coated metals exposed in a given test chamber. The test parameters are listed
below:
Temperature in test chamber
35 oC (+1.1 oC
/ -1.7 oC)
Relative Humidity in test chamber
95 – 98%
Salt solution (which produces
salt spray)
Sodium Chloride * (5%) + Water**
(95%)
* sodium
chloride with
- total impurities of not more
than 0.3% by mass,
- halides (bromide, fluoride
& iodide) excluding chloride of not more than 0.1% by mass,
- copper content of less than 0.3
ppm
- no anti-caking agents (0.0%)
** water
conforming to Type IV water in ASTM D1193
PH
range of the collected salt solution
PH value
6.5 – 7.2
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