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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">MUJAST</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Mountain Top University Journal of Applied Sciences and Technology</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title>MUJAST</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2736-2310</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Mountain Top University</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Prayer City, Ogun State, Nigeria</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">LEGACY-2qptap</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.mtu/legacy-2qptap</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Evaluation of Synergistic Effect of Plant Extracts for Cathodic Inhibition of Steel in Acidic Media</article-title>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
        <name>
          <surname>Sodiya</surname>
          <given-names>Sodiya</given-names>
        </name>
        <aff id="aff-1">Mountain Top University, Nigeria</aff>
        

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      <contrib contrib-type="author" >
        <name>
          <surname>F.</surname>
          <given-names>E.</given-names>
        </name>
        <aff id="aff-2">Mountain Top University, Nigeria</aff>
        

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      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>14</day>
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2022 Mountain Top University. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0).</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2022</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Mountain Top University</copyright-holder>
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        <license xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
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          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
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        <p>&lt;p&gt;The synergistic effect of combining both Sida acuta (SA) and Jatropha curcas (JC) leaf extracts on steel in 1.0 M HCl solution was investigated using gasometric and conventional o o weight loss technique at 30 C and 50 C. Surface microscture of the steel with the mixed extract werestudied through Scanning electron microscope(SEM) and Electron dispersive X- ray spectroscopy (EDX) which revealed how the inhibitor hindered the attack of acid on the microstructures thereby preventing its dissolution into the corrodent. The presence of C=O -1 functional band at 1094 cm of ester was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared analysis. o o Synergism Parameter(S1) was at optimum at 2.09 and 2.65 at 30 C and 50 C respectively on steel pipe. This implies that synergism is favoured with increasein temperature. S1 greater than 1 confirmed that the mixture of the two plants produced synergised inhibitive effect. The inhibitory power increases with increase in extract concentration. Inhibition Efficiency -3 rangesfrom 60 % to 85 % with increasein extractconcentration of SAalonefrom 0.1 gdm to -3 o 1.0 gdm . When synergisedwith JC, itrangesfrom 77 % to 93 % for SA at 30 C forthesame concentration increase. Results obtained showed that thesynergeticeffects of the plantsextract complimented carbon constituent of the steel to enhanced the corrosion inhibition potential synergized plantextracts overunsynergized onthe steel.&lt;/p&gt;</p>
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      <kwd-group kwd-group-type="author">
        <kwd>&lt;p&gt;Synergism,Jatropha curcas, Sida acuta, Cathodic, Corrosion inhibition&lt;/p&gt;</kwd>
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