The total expenditure incurred in the import of materials for artificial bones and joints is increasing every year in Japan. Keeping this in view, anodic polarization of various metals like Ti, Al, V, Zr, Sn, Nb, Ta, Pd, Mo, Si, Co, Ni, Cr and Fe and cytocompatibility of these metallic powders by using L929 cell line were investigated. The corrosion resistance for Ti, Ta, Nb and Si in Eagle’s medium solution was excellent. In the case of Zr, Sn, Cr and Mo the passive films on the surface of these metals were formed, but tends to break as the potential increased. On the other hand the corrosion resistance was not very satisfactory for Al, V, Pd, Ni, Co and Fe. The results were similar in 1% lactic acid solution except that, the passive film formed on the surface of Zr and Al are stable as compared with that in Eagle’s medium. The relative growth ratios of L929 cells for Ti, Sn, Ta, Nb, Zr, and Cr powders extraction was equal to unity. The relative growth ratios for Al, V, Co, Ni, Pd, Fe, Si and Mo powders extraction decreased as the metallic concentration increased in the Eagle’s medium. Also, the effect of relative growth ratio of L929 cells for various metals was examined with the corrosion potential and the potential at 0.1 A·m
−2 obtained by the anodic polarization curve. It was found that the relative growth ratio of L929 cells tends to be low for metals less than 0 V and high for metals more than 0 V at a current density of 0.1 A·m
−2. Moreover, the relative growth ratio of L929 cells for Al(OH)
3 powder extraction and AlCl
3·6H
2O dissolution from Al powder extraction was estimated in order to understand the chemical configuration of Al in Eagle’s medium solution. It was found that the relative growth ratio of L929 cells almost became equal to 0 for Al powder at a metallic concentration of 0.4 mass ppm. On the contrary, the relative growth ratio of L929 cells for AlCl
3·6H
2O dissolution was equal to unity up to a fairly high concentration of 50 mass ppm. Based on the results obtained, cytocompatibility of the various metals was compared with the Mandeleef’s periodic table.
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