An Investigation of Electrochemical Dechlorination of Wrought Iron Specimens from the Marine Environment
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
My main comments have been listed in the attached detailed response. I have concerns about the low level of interpretation of your interesting data and am worried that the use of a single starting point for chlorides, based on SEM semi-quantitative data, is what you are using as a yardstick.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Notes:
1. Carefully check the numbering of the subsections of Section 3: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5. You don't have 3.1 and two 3.3.
2. Maybe use “Wrought Iron” in keywords.
3. Line 92. You have "3,5 cm". Should be “3.5”.
4. Line 108. You have “18 cm x 13 cm”, it might be better to use the correct character and write “18´18 cm2”. Line 112 is similar to “15´8´0.2 cm3”
5. Line 123, should be “Hg/HgSO4” - subscript.
6. Line 150. Should be “15 mA/cm2” superscript.
7. Line 151. Should be “(-980 mV to -900 mV”, spaces missing.
8. In picture inscriptions (fig. 3, 4, 5) there should be “mA/cm2” superscript. The font of the character I is italic.
9. Must be “24 hours”, space missing.
10. Figure 6. Axis label should be “Time (hours)”. Missing spaces. Should be “13, 17, 18, 20.”.
11. In formula (1) and in explanations to it, variables and indices must have the same spelling. Lines 217, 219-223.
12. Beginning of line 247. Should be “A=0.5 mm”. Symbols A, B, C, D should be written in italics and in figure 7 too.
13. Figure 7. Pay attention to the size of the interval for comparing distances. You have A=0.5 mm. The interval must be comparable to this value.
14. Table 5. Should be “mA/cm2” superscript. Instead of "7,5" should be "7.5". There must be a space “24 hours”.
16. In Table 6, the symbol a should be written in italics. Number separator point, for example, 7.5. Need a space in “72 hours”.
17. In formula (2) and in explanations to it, variables and indices must have the same spelling.
18. In Table 7, the characters I, A, B, C, D should be written in italics. A space is required between the number and the dimension, eg I=4 mA. In your article, time is mainly measured in “hours”, so be it throughout the text. “HNO3”, subscript.
19. On fig. 8. Should be “HNO3”, subscript.
20. Lines 271, 272. Can be characters F, F, B, C, D in italics.
21. Table 7. "F" italic? “HNO3”, subscript.
22. In the captions to Fig. 10-12 “I” italic.
23. Lines 316-319 character “r” in italics.
24. Lines 325, 326 correct the link to the source.
25. Type formulas (3)-(6) correctly in MathType, use the built-in multiplication sign symbols if necessary. Symbols in the formula and in the explanations to it are in italics. Pay attention to the correct spelling of indexes.
26. On pages 335, 340 characters in italics.
27. Table 9. “I” in italics.
I recommend carefully subtracting the text of the paper in order to eliminate technical errors, maybe I missed something.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Thank you for your detailed responses to comments by the reviewer, it makes the paper much more compelling and understandable. Well done for your efforts.
