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Passive
(1) A metal corroding under the control of a surface reaction product. (2) The state of the metal surface characterised by low corrosion rates in a potential region that is strongly oxidising for the metal. (3) The state of a metal when its behaviour is much more noble than its position in the EMF series would predict. This is a surface phenomena.
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