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You need naked iron, in an environment containing oxygen (like most outside air, or water).

Steel is carbon saturated steel. Oxygen can't easily bind with the iron elements in steel, as carbon has a stronger bond, and even if an oxygen atom would pull out another atom out of the steel it would be a carbon atom, not an iron one.

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