“…Common synergists include formic acid [26,27] (used at a concentration range of 0.5 to 10 wt.% [22]), potassium iodide [10,22,28] (used at a concentration range of 0.5 to 10 wt.% [22]), copper halides [22], and metals ions (e.g., Zn(NO 3 ) 2 , Sb 2 O 3 , SbCl 3 , Sb 2 O 5 , etc.) [22,29,30], which are used at the concentration range of 1-1.5 wt.% [22]. This work was thus designed to examine the effect of the addition of different concentrations of Zn(NO 3 ) 2 , KI, and formic acid on the corrosion inhibition performance of butanolic extract of date palm leaves for API 5L X60 carbon steel in 15 wt.% HCl solution at 25-60 • C. To accomplish this task, the mass loss, electrochemical (electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), potentiodynamic polarization (PDP), and linear polarization resistance (LPR)), and surface screening (scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDAX), and atomic force microscopy (AFM)) techniques were deployed for anticorrosion studies.…”