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Ezekiel 24:6 “Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; no lot is fallen upon it.”
Rusting farm sheds in the countryside add to the atmosphere of this photo along with the moody sky, Hillview, Queensland, Australia.
This old Ford rests sheltered from inclement weather by a roof and two old buildings. Looks like a fine place to live out it’s days!
Goods Way, just behind St Pancras Station, Central London
Within living memory this area was full of the rust that comes with neglect, and it seems that now the area has smartened up and become desirable so has the rust...
"You say these days are made of rust
Counted out
Counted out in loss
I've got plans to prove them wrong"
INXS: youtu.be/fWYzfrhpqPg
Happy Bokeh Wednesday, everyone!
The rails of the former Monon just south of Campbellsburg, Indiana sit rusting away in the warm sun.
Rust is the common name for a very common compound, iron oxide. Iron oxide, the chemical Fe2O3, is common because iron combines very readily with oxygen -- so readily, in fact, that pure iron is only rarely found in nature. Iron (or steel) rusting is an example of corrosion.
When a drop of water hits an iron object, two things begin to happen almost immediately. First, the water, a good electrolyte, combines with carbon dioxide in the air to form a weak carbonic acid, an even better electrolyte. As the acid is formed and the iron dissolved, some of the water will begin to break down into its component pieces -- hydrogen and oxygen. The free oxygen and dissolved iron bond into iron oxide, in the process freeing electrons.
The chemical compounds found in liquids like acid rain, seawater and the salt-loaded spray from snow-belt roads make them better electrolytes than pure water, allowing their presence to speed the process of rusting on iron and other forms of corrosion on other metals.