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Rusting is a chemical process when the surface of a metal becomes attacked by elements in air or water and it asorbs oxygen (or sometimes sulfur) to become a compound of it. However, many materials do not rust, because the modified surface so formed does not peel or flake-off, exposing more of it for this chemistry to repeat its action.

Thus rusting is a very chemical change (as peeling of the surface is not really defined as a physical change).

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