“…The understanding of anodic behaviour of zinc is therefore of great interest. Although the formation, composition and properties of the anodic passive layers on zinc in aqueous media have been the matter of many publications in recent decades (Armstrong and Bell, 1974;Brood and Leger, 1976;Leidheiser, 1987;Graedel, 1989;Walter and Madurasinghe, 1989;Hiskima et al, 1991;Bech Nielsen and Juhl, 1993;Zhang, 1995), there is a shortage of information in the literature on the electrochemical behaviour of Zn in Na 2 SO 4 solutions (Gmytryk and Sedzimir, 1967;Baugh, 1979;Deslouis et al, 1989).…”