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Iron atoms are not destroyed when iron rusts; they undergo a chemical reaction called oxidation, forming iron oxide (rust). The atoms are rearranged to create a new compound, but the iron atoms still exist within the rust.
The reducing agent when iron rusts is the iron itself. Iron atoms lose electrons to oxygen atoms in the presence of water and oxygen gas, leading to the formation of iron oxide (rust).
The iron is reacting with other substances in the surrounding enviornment. This typically changes the iron atoms into molecules of iron oxide. Because the rust contains more atoms, the iron and now oxygen atoms, the mass of the nail increases.
Iron is the transition metal that rusts when exposed to oxygen, forming iron oxide.
After the iron rusts, it will combine with oxygen from the air to form iron oxide. Since the total weight of the sealed container after the iron rusts is still 15 grams, the added weight will be the mass of the oxygen atoms that combined with the iron to form iron oxide.
False, iron atoms are converted to iron oxide
Iron atoms are not destroyed when iron rusts; they undergo a chemical reaction called oxidation, forming iron oxide (rust). The atoms are rearranged to create a new compound, but the iron atoms still exist within the rust.
The reducing agent when iron rusts is the iron itself. Iron atoms lose electrons to oxygen atoms in the presence of water and oxygen gas, leading to the formation of iron oxide (rust).
The iron is reacting with other substances in the surrounding enviornment. This typically changes the iron atoms into molecules of iron oxide. Because the rust contains more atoms, the iron and now oxygen atoms, the mass of the nail increases.
Bonds are formed between some of the iron atoms in the nail and oxygen atoms from the air.
Iron is the transition metal that rusts when exposed to oxygen, forming iron oxide.
After the iron rusts, it will combine with oxygen from the air to form iron oxide. Since the total weight of the sealed container after the iron rusts is still 15 grams, the added weight will be the mass of the oxygen atoms that combined with the iron to form iron oxide.
When iron rusts, entropy is increasing. The formation of rust involves a chemical reaction, which results in an increase in disorder and randomness of the iron atoms as they bond with oxygen atoms in the environment. This increase in disorder corresponds to an increase in entropy.
Actually it doesn't affect its weight at all. During the chemical change that occurs when iron rusts, the weight does not change because weight never changes during a chemical reaction because nothing new is being created nor destroyed, only combined.
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No. Iron rusts but it is not biodegradable.
Iron rusts.