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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Rust is the result of that metal reacting with oxygen.

It’s the result of ionic interaction, and different metals will “rust” in different ways. Like stainless steel for example, the shiny outside layer is actually how that particular metal “rusts”

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