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I can't decide if all these replies represent genuine interest, you lot humouring me, or just plain old taking the p1ss. Still i promised an update - so here you go...
![]() ![]() These were taken almost 48 hours after initial exposure. As you can see the sample with no protection at all is rusted to buggery. Interestingly the steel wool and nails stil look perfect if you lift them out of the pot, but there is a thick pile of iron oxide particles in the bottom of the beaker, and suspended in the water. I suspect that rusty water may be acidic and hence its corroding the the rust off the metal as soon as its formed. The 2 protected samples have clearly faired much better. The one in the middle is treated with acf-50 and surprsingly seems to have faired a little worse than the wd-40. Maybe this was due to me being a bight tight with the acf-50 can - as its sooo expensive ![]() I'm expecting the wd-40 to catch up over a few days as it disolves in the water and evaperates. We'll see. Last edited by New Leaf; 19-10-07 at 08:51 AM. |
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Those photos are blocked at work ... classed as "Criminal Skills"
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Very interesting. I'm not humouring you btw, its interesting. Plenty of air there too so just like a wet SV
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There's a much greater concentration of oxygen in water than in air, in fact it's 1/3 oxygen, thats why things rust quicker when they're wet. The oxygen atoms in the H2O molecules bond with the iron in the steel creating iron oxide (rust) and small amounts of hydrogen gas, so theres no advantage of exposing the steel wool to air. Doesn't matter if the water's distilled or boiled it still contains the same amount of oxygen to react with the iron in the steel.
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I demand time lapse film footage of the rust forming!
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Intersting stuff, sort of thing i'd do at home myself so thanks for saving me the time and effort and please do keep updating this.
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