The paper deals with a possibility of replacing the toxic anti-corrosi
on pigments based on lead and chromium salts with the ecologically har
mless pigments of at least equal anticorrosion efficiency. A series of
anticorrosion pigments reflecting the anticorrosion efficiencies as s
hown in primers was obtained. The highest efficiencies of the corrosio
n inhibitors were shown by a zinc ferrite based pigment and a barium c
alcium phosphosilicate based pigment. The hitherto usual lead and chro
mium pigments showed an inferior efficiency.