How can alloying iron prevent it from corroding?

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How does stainless steel work? You add a little bit of chromium to it and the iron no longer reacts with oxygen? I don’t get how that happens.

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Some things don’t rust…water, rock, wood, bananas etc. Sure they do react with oxygen but it’s not rust. Iron does rust so it you change it so there’s less iron they’re will be less rust. Stainless still oxidizes but it’s not rust and it’s a more desirable outcome

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