It's not the water that rusts a nail every time. Sometimes it is just the moisture in the air that rusts it. Almost any metal, when exposed to moisture, will rust in time. It rusts because the water molecules cause it to oxidize the metal. For example, when the French first gave the US. the Statue of Liberty, it was like a penny, shiny and made of copper. Now, it is still made of copper, but the metal has oxidized it green.
The moisture in the air is mostly water-- just little clumps of H2O molecules mixed in between the Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and whatever else is in the air. In places where the humidity is usually high, nails-- and any other unprotected steel-- will rust faster than places where the air is dry. Water itself does not cause the rust. But very little water is pure. Even rain drops trap dust particles and anything else that is in the air. Where water sits in contact with metal, it creates a miniature "chemistry lab" where the molecules in the metal interact with trapped molecules in-- and near-- the water to form oxides. Iron oxide looks reddish. Copper oxide looks greenish.
If there is salt or chlorine in the water, the oxidation is likely to happen faster.
Most metals oxidize. Gold is one does not. If you look at a Periodic Table of Elements, found in most Chemistry books and classrooms, you can figure out which other metals don't oxidize, and which ones oxidize more slowly or quickly. Hint: see how they line up with Gold-- symbol Au.
it cant i don't think because water is not supposed to do nothing wrong but if you leave your hand in the water for to long the only thing that will happen is that your skin will get all cranky that's all sorry i you did not get any information but i till tried :) PS: be %100 percent sure of what i said because that's only of what i think thank you :)
Rust is the result of either atmospheric attack or electrolytic action upon ferrous material and is active when moisture in the form of water is present. Water is hydrogen oxide (it is, after all, H20) and the presence of oxygen in the water and in the atmosphere increases the rate of oxidation of the metal. Other liquids contain little or no oxygen and shield the iron from attack by oxygen, thus no or little oxidation occurs.
Bleach rusts it fasstest
i know u are all gay. That's what makes the rust on metal. Combining it with oxygen.
Orange Juice contains acid which corrodes and helps rust metals. It chemically reacts with the nail and breaks it down quicker then in nature it would.
yes it does. about 3 hours after you put your nail inthe water it will rust
Its because of the oxygen
it would have to be salt water or vinegar or both to rust a steel nail
salt water would rust a nail in roughly 2 hours as salt has a fast reaction to metals (nails).
It will eventually corrode (rust).
The acidity of the soda accelerates the process, but the nail would rust in a glass of pure water as well. Rust is caused by oxygen in the air, but various other chemicals can catalyse that process.
It rusts faster in salt water.
You rust a nail in either salt water or in vingar that what makes a nail rust
The dissolved oxygen in the water reacts with the nail to form rust.
The oxygen in the water reacts with the metal in the nail - forming metal oxide (rust)
A nail will rust faster in wet soil than water, but if the soil is not wet , the nail will rust faster in water. I hope this answers your question. Bye, Annette Pfohl
it would have to be salt water or vinegar or both to rust a steel nail
tap water will rust it faster. tap water lets more oxygen get to the nail and should cause it to rust in a few hours after being put in the water
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Distilled water will rust a nail faster as distilled water contains higher levels of OXYGEN which is what causes OXIDATION or commonly referred to as rust...
Sea water can rust nails or other metals.
the type of liquid that causes a nail to rust is vinegar
Salt Water!
water would make a nail rust faster because nails rust faster in water or any acidic liquads. As I been told