Abstract:
In the disclosed compositions, about 2 to about 10% by weight of a drying oil in combination with a conventional rust-inhibiting thixotropic inorganic-organic complex in the appropriate concentration provides a corrosion inhibiting film with a degree of resistance to saltspray not possessed by either the inorganicorganic complex or the drying oil alone. A preferred composition comprises 12.5 to 25% by weight of a calcium sulfonate/calcium carbonate concentrate and 3 - 9% by weight of tung oil, essentially the balance of the composition being a high-boiling hydrocarbon oil (e.g. paraffinic or naphthenic oil). The inorganic-organic complex concentrate typically comprises a stable dispersion of the complex in 65 - 100 parts per hundred of a hydrocarbon oil which can be the same as or different from the aforementioned balance of the composition. These compositions are particularly well-suited to flotation coating of ballast tanks.