Electroless dissolution of metals: Substantiation and alternative notions

The experimentally established anomalies in the dissolution of metals under different conditions are generalized. The existing explanations for the an omalies are compared. Attention is focused on the dissolution of metals by the electrochemical and both the electrochemical and electroless mechanisms . The feasibility of employing new theoretical notions of the electrochemic al kinetics for interpreting the anomalous processes of the dissolution of metals as processes of an electroless nature is considered.