ASTM B 614- 05 Standard Practice for Descaling and Cleaning Zirconium and Zirconium Alloy Surfaces

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). Current edition approved May 1, 2005. Published June 2005. Originally approved in 1977. Last previous edition approved in 2000 as B 614 – 95 (2000). 3 p. This practice covers a cleaning and descaling procedure useful to producers, users, and fabricators of zirconium and zirconium alloys for the removal of ordinary shop soils, oxides, and scales resulting from heat treatment operations and foreign substances present as surface contaminants.