This report is concerned with basic wear experiments for zinc, antimony and aluminium against a glass disk carried on under unlubricated condition, and under various lubricated conditions, using distilled water, 15% hydrogen peroxide and 2% hydroquinone. These wear phenomena have been studied quantitatively on the amount of wear, the coefficient of friction and the surface roughness of the glass disk. As a result, it is found that the mechanical properties, especially the hardness of the oxide of wear particles, plays a major role in the wear rate at steady state. The results obtained from these expreriments are summarized as follows. 1) With a soft metal, the more easily the metal is oxidized and the harder the oxide of wear particle is, then the higher wear rate results in. 2) Under unlubricated condition, the wear rates for gold, silver, copper, antimony, aluminium, except zinc are lower or the same, and the coefficients of friction are somewhat higher, as compared with that of the lubricated conditions. 3) In the case of lubrication with hydrogen peroxide, the wear rates for gold, silver, copper, zinc, aluminium, except antimony are the highest of those in another lubricated conditions; especially, the wear rate of aluminium is maximum between six metals. 4) The wear behaviors of zinc and antimony can be explained from the fact that these metals have poor ductility in character, and also the oxide of antimony has lower hardness than pure metal. Finally, it is concluded that these wear are due to lapping or abrasion by the oxides of wear particles.
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