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AluminumRust is the process that ferric metals, those based on iron, oxidize, or combine with oxygen. Aluminum is not a ferric metal, so it won't rust. But it will oxidize, which results in a skin of aluminum oxide coating the metal, which protects it from further oxidation. This is why an aluminum can will take 10,000 years to disintegrate. AnswerTechnically, it corrodes. Aluminum oxide is white and coats aluminum making it less bright. When aluminum starts to get a little less bight, it has oxidized. It's just not called rust since rust refers only to ferric metals.

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It sort of does. Rusting is something iron does when it oxidizes. Aluminum also oxidizes, it just gets white and crusty looking. It finally oxidizes to the point of disappearing.

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