Method of measuring corrosion of electronic conductors by non-gaseous ionic conductors

Claim 1

IN A METHOD FOR MEASURING THE CORROSION CURRENT OF THE INTERFACE OF AN ELETRONIC CONDUCTOR SURFACE AND A NONGASEOUS IONIC CONDUCTOR, THE METHOD OF MEASURING A TRANSITION POINT OF LINE SLOPE CHANE OCCURING IN AN INITIAL RANGE OF CURRENT-POTENTIAL RELATIONSHIP, WHICH METHOD COMPRISES THE STEPS OF FORMING AN AREA OF THE INTERFACE TO BE MEASURED AND AN AREA OF SEPARATE AND OPPOSED INTERFACE IN A COMBINATION OF SHAPE AND SIZE AND OPPOSED POSITION OF THE TWO INTERFACES SELECTED TO SUBSTANTIALLY MAINTAIN RANGE OF VARIATION IN VALUE OF POLARIZED ELECTRODE POTENTIAL SUBSEQUENTLY PRODUCED ON THE INTERFACE TO BE MEASURED WITHIN RANGE OF VARIATION OCCURING TO ITS FREE ELECTRODE POTENTIAL, ESTABLISHING A REFERENCE ELECTRODE WITHIN THE IONIC CONDUCTOR SEPARATED FROM THE INTERFACE TO BE MEASURED BY A DISTANCE TO INCLUDE TOTAL POLARIZATION VOLTAGE IN POLARIZED ELECTRODE POTENITAL MEASUREMENT AND POSITIONED TO SUBSTANTIALLY EXCLUDE VOLAGE PRODUCED BY IONIC CONDUCTOR RESISTANCE TO POLARIZING D.C. CURRENT SUBSEQUENTLY PASSED BETWEEN THE TWO INTERFACES, SELECTING A D.C. VOLTAGE DELIVERY SYSTEM FROM A CLASS PRODUCING SUBSTANTIALLY REPRODUCIBLE MANER OF APPROACH OF THE CURRENTPOTENTIAL RELATIONSHIP TOWARD EQUILBRUIM VALUES OF CURRENT AND POTENTIAL, AT A SELECTED INSTANT OF TIME DURING THE PROGRESS OF THE CORROSION OPERATING THE D.C. VOLTAGE DE LIVERY SYSTEM TO DELIVER D.C. VOLTAGE TO THE ELECTRONIC CONDUCTORS OF THE OPPOSED INTERFACES OF VALUE TO POLARIZE THE INTERFACE TO BE MEASURED TO AN ELECTRODE POTENTIAL WHICH DEFINES ONE LIMIT TO A RANGE OF CURRENT-POTENTIAL RELATIONSHIP SUBSTANTIALLY INCLUDING THE FREE ELECTRODE PO TENTIAL AND EXTENDING BEYOND THE TRANSITION POINT OF LINE SLOPE CHANGE OCCURRING AT MINIMUM POLARIZATION VOLTAGE IN THE LINEAR RELATIONSHIP OF VOLTAGE AND CURRENT, MEASUR-