The "rust" of silver is tarnish. If you want to get technical, only iron truly rusts.
Silver (coins) do NOT rust. Rust the iron when oxidised. Silver will oxidise very slowly, to form silver oxide, which is black in colour, This oxidation process can take weeks/months to occur. If you have any silverware, you will normally polish it once a week. this prevents oxidiation. However, if you leave it unpolished for say , 6 months, the silver will appear dull or black in places; this is silver oxide.
The process is called oxidation, where the metal combines with oxygen to form metal oxides. This can result in the formation of rust on iron or tarnish on silver.
No. Ferrous metals (iron) rust. However, sterling silver does tarnish, a form of oxidation which is chemically a similar process to rusting but only produces a color change rather than destroying the metal.
Iron oxide is called rust.
No, rust is not acidic. Rust is actually a product of a chemical reaction called oxidation, where iron reacts with oxygen in the presence of water to form iron oxide, commonly known as rust.
It's called oxidation. Rust if it were on steel. Oxygen in the air combines with the silver and causes it to darken.
i do not think that it can rust.
Silver does not rust but fading of silver when left to environment is called as Tarnishing Rust is the name given to the oxydisation of iron or any alloy containing it, like steel. All metals oxydise including silver, but we generally call oxydisation of silver, tarnish.
(For the purposes of answering this question I am rephrasing it as: "Which, if any, of the following materials 'rust': wood, silver, aluminum, copper, gold, and steel") The word "rust" (a verb) usually refers to the oxidation of iron, or most kinds of steel, to form an oxide of that material (i.e., iron oxide) on the surface, also called "rust" (a noun). More generally, the oxidation of any metal could be called rusting, in which case silver, aluminum, and copper all "rust" to differing degrees. To the best of my knowledge, gold and stainless steel do not oxidize under ordinary atmospheric conditions. (Silver "rust" is usually called "tarnish", copper "rust" "verdigris", and aluminum "rust" "aluminum oxide".) Wood is not a metal (nor an element), and its oxidation is ordinarily a fire producing ash and smoke, complex compounds containing many oxides, but never considered "rust".
Tarnish is to silver as rust is to iron. Tarnish is a layer of corrosion that forms on silver when it reacts with sulfur-containing compounds, while rust is the result of iron reacting with oxygen and moisture.
It is silver oxides (Ag2O) or the rust of silver.
copper and silver dont rust. but copper tarnishes and so does silver. but copper will tarnish faster than silver. also, learn to spell please.
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Tarnish
If you are seeing rust, it's not silver. It's silverplate and the plating has worn off. Silver tarnishes but does not rust. Having said that, Maas metal polish will take it off and it will not harm what silver there is. Talk with your jeweler about replating the item.
A silver dollar cant rust, however you may get some oxidation as pool chlorine is an oxidant .
Silver (coins) do NOT rust. Rust the iron when oxidised. Silver will oxidise very slowly, to form silver oxide, which is black in colour, This oxidation process can take weeks/months to occur. If you have any silverware, you will normally polish it once a week. this prevents oxidiation. However, if you leave it unpolished for say , 6 months, the silver will appear dull or black in places; this is silver oxide.