CORRECTION: Coke can NOT eat through a nail, but it can eat away the rust because it is corrosive. Second, it can't eat through your body because the acid is not strong enough. In fact, the acid lining the walls of your stomach is even stronger than the acid in the coke.
When a rusty nail is put into coke or another acidic substance, the rust (iron oxide) will undergo a chemical reaction with the acid to form soluble iron compounds. This process will dissolve the rust and remove it from the nail, leaving behind clean iron.
Homogeneous
Iron lose electrons.
The rust that forms on the nail is actually iron oxide, which has a greater molecular weight than iron. This additional weight from the rust causes the rusty nail to weigh more than the original nail.
chemical change
yes in fact it is.!
When a rusty nail is put into coke or another acidic substance, the rust (iron oxide) will undergo a chemical reaction with the acid to form soluble iron compounds. This process will dissolve the rust and remove it from the nail, leaving behind clean iron.
If you stepped on a rusty nail you should go to the doctor and get a tetanus shot
Coke or Pepsi has been used to remove rust from objects including nails. There was a myth that coke will dissolve nails but this has been proven false.
How did rusty nail survive joy ride two
If you step on a rusty nail then you would have to get a tetanus shot
the nail will get shiny the coke will get rid of all rust on iron. We use coke to clean the rust of our bicycles
carpentry
Think of this: 'a rusty nail' . . 'nail' is a noun, therefore the modifier 'rusty' is an adejctive. An adverb modifies a verb: 'He walked steadily'.
Unless you see the object that caused the injury, a person would not know if it was a nail, rusty nail, or some other object. That is why tetanus shots are given.
Homogeneous
The cause is the temporary absorption of caramel dissolved in coke on the nail surface.