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Which metals rust faster steel zinc-coated steel iron or copper and why?
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
I would like to make two things clear.
-Copper is metal, so your question is like "What tastes better? Fruit or apple?"
- Rusting is restricted to Iron, another metal. The word "Corrosion" is used for all other metals, such as Copper. Corrosion and Rusting are pretty much the same, but they are used in different places.
If you wanted to know if Other Metals corrode faster than Copper, the answer would be that it depends on the metal in question.
Most metals, like Iron, Aluminum, Zinc,etc , are more reactive than Copper, so they corrode faster.
However, some metals, like Mercury, Silver, Platinum, Gold, etc, are less reactive, so they corrode slower than Copper.
I hope this answers your question.
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
Wiki User
∙ 14y agozinc coated. the coating's protective layer quickly wears off, thus it rusts, iron will oxidize, and eventually rust, copper will just oxidize.
Actually the steel would rust first because it has no protective layer at all.
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