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How does saltwater make nails rust?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Any water makes iron rust. Rust is iron oxide. It happens when water allows the oxygen to dissolve in it and get to the surface of the metal. Salt water has dissolve salts in it which makes it work faster.

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12y ago

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