Pourbaix's elemental coverage

I gave you the handout on the Pourbaix diagram. Let's go over some of the stuff in Pourbaix's book. He has a chapter at the beginning about corrosion, because corrosion is an electrochemical process. The whole chart is on page 80 of Pourbaix's book. I'm sure Pourbaix has passed away now, but the whole research center in Belgium — Cebelcor — is the Pourbaix Laboratory. He lists forty-three of the elements in the periodic table in terms of their thermodynamic nobility and their practical nobility.