Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has not had the same impact on corrosion science as it has had on physical metallurgy. This has in part been due to the apparent difficulty of preparing thin foils from thick oxide scales. This paper describes simple techniques and procedures· which have been developed to enable thinfoils to be preparedfrom sections of oxide scales and metal—oxide interfaces. Brief examples of the results obtained are presented. These illustrate the additional information it is possible to obtain from TEM studies and which is not obtainable by other techniques such as scanning electron microscopy and electron probe microanalysis.
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