How does rust work to eat away a metal?

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Where does rust come from? How does it begin to form and why only on certain metals?

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It doesnt eat metal. It iron/steel become rust due to oxygen. Since rust is really weak, it can then flake off exposing more iron to oxygen. This will repeat until all the iron is iron oxide.

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