MTU scientists developed a more precise method to observe how iron minerals like rust form. One can easily see with the naked eye that leaving an old nail out in the rain causes rust. What does ...

IN the October issue of the Chemical Society's Journal, Mr. Bertram Lambert describes a second series of experiments on the rusting of iron. In these experiments it is shown by spectroscopic ...

A student set up six test tubes to investigate the rusting of iron. This is the method used for each test tube. Measure the mass of the nail using a balance. Leave the nail in the test tube for 6 ...

Result No rust. Calcium chloride dries out the air. Salt solution acts as an electrolyte (any substance containing free ions that allows the substance to conduct electricity) allowing iron to lose ...