“Corrosion” is a general term for the breakdown of bonds among molecules in a material — like the way battery acid can corrode the metal inside a flashlight. A more specific chemical alteration term — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine leaving your shiny metal bicycle outside in the rain. As water pools on its surfaces, oxygen from the air lingers nearby, ...

Iron dust, the gold of the oceans and rarest nutrient for most marine life, can be washed down by rivers or blown out to sea or -- a surprising new study finds -- float up uncorroded from the sea ...

I grew up with the idea that the Moon was a dry, airless rock where metal simply sat unchanged for billions of years. The discovery of actual iron rust in lunar soil has blown a hole in that picture, ...

This unusual discovery comes from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. What has been observed is the sign of iron reacting with oxygen and forming rouging. Yet how can this be happening if the Moon is ...

IN NATURE of February 21 (p. 390) appears a letter from Prof. Wyndham R. Dunstan in which he represents me as having concluded “that carbonic acid is essential to the rusting of iron, and that rusting ...