Gas release during wear

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Letter to the Editor

Gas release during wear

Further

to the letter to the editor “Gas bubbles formed

by abrasion”

[ 11 and the “Reply to comments on “Gas bubbles formed by abrasion” ” [ 21, it may be of interest to readers to hear that the phenomenon also occur-

red under “two-body” conditions. Rubbing together a pair of tin-aluminium bearing material specimens resulted in a substantial gas release. This did not happen with a pair of copper-lead specimens. Further tests and attempts to identify the gas are under way. L ROSENFELD

Institute of Sound and Vibration (Ct. Britain)

Research,

1 L. Rosenfeld, Gas bubbles formed 2 L. Rosenfeld, Reply to comments (1974) 281, 282. (In this reply, at been omitted: “to the order of 10 (Received

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12, 1974)

The University.

Southampton

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by abrasion, Wear 28 (1974) 282. Wear, 30 on “Gas bubbles formed by abrasion”, the bottom of p. 281 the following words have mm”).