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Why should it violate it? Atoms are simply rearranged. No new atoms are created, no atoms are destroyed. The rust will have more mass than the original iron (or whatever metal is rusting), but that's because oxygen atoms from the atmosphere are added. Add: This does not violate the law of conservation of mass, because the mass of the rust is the combined mass of the iron and the oxygen in the atmosphere that reacted to form the rust.

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