This standard establishes the test procedure for producing environmentally related corrosive atmospheres to determine the reaction of plated or unplated surfaces when exposed to different concentrations of flowing gas mixtures. ^{1) and 2)}

1) The Development and Performance Characteristics of Mixed Flowing Gas Test Environments, Electrical Contacts - 1987, Proceedings of the Thirty-Third IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts, IEEE, New York, 1987, pp67-78.

2) D.W.Rice et al., Atmospheric Corrosion of Copper and Silver, J. Electrochem. Soc., 128, 1981, pp 275-284.