Rust can be incredibly annoying if it appears on your new bicycle or car, but if you are a free-floating baby marine animal ...

Forty years on, and the bad old times when iron rusted are giving way to the new age of rustless alloys, official committees of investigation, some understanding of the problem, and a considerable ...

Near the British village of Melsonby, North Yorkshire, history lay hidden beneath the soil—muddy and forgotten for 2,000 ...

Corrosion happens when a metal structure’s chemical elements (usually in the form of charged “ions”) react with a chemical element in seawater. What we call rust is iron reacting with oxygen ...

Having had some inquiries made of us respecting the amount of corrosion which iron undergoes in water, we present the following remarks of Mr, Adie, of Liverpool, Eng,, which were read sometime ...

Galvanisation is the process of zinc-plating other metals to protect them from corrosion. Metal sculptures are shown being cleaned in an acid bath then dipped in a bath of molten zinc. This forms ...

Gold and other very unreactive metals do not oxidise in air at all. Corrosion close corrosionThe destruction of a metal by oxidation or chemical action, eg rusting. happens when a metal continues ...