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Watching iron rust produces new insights on corrosion

17 Mar 2022 Isabelle Dumé
iron corrosion
Iron (blue) can react with trace amounts of water to produce corrosive chemicals. (Courtesy: Evgeni Penev/Rice University)
Iron has been an important metal to humans for thousands of years, but it has a serious flaw: when e

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