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I really like the fly agaric mushroom. But most of all, when it dries out and "rusts" in the forest, and its cap turns a coppery-orange color and deforms in a whimsical way. That’s when it’s at its most beautiful and blends perfectly with the autumn colors. I have a few photos from this year. I'll share them this week. Poland, Karkonosze Mountains
Gears on the remains of the Steam Donkey on the edge of Monarch Lake, Arapaho National Forest, Colorado. The Steam Donkey is a machine that was used to move lumber down to the lake, from where it moved to the town of Monarch, now buried beneath Lake Granby.
A bit of information about Monarch is here:
www.grandcountyhistory.com/category/monarch
(click on the link under "Monarch Articles")
The juxtaposition of the rusted barb and the delicate seed clinging to it struck me as an intriguing image.....
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I spent a very enjoyable few hours yesterday wandering around Brighton looking for rust to photograph for my latest challenge. It's not hard to find in a seaside town! I took lots of shots, of which these are two I liked.
“Iron can be destroyed by rust, and rust is a slow process which is caused by the hydrogen ion from water in the environment. Coat yourself against negative thoughts and be careful what you feed your mind because your mind is your greatest asset, make sure you are not using it against yourself.”
― Uzoma Nnadi
Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad has a couple of SD9s and a GP9 wasting away after a track washout left the units stranded since 2007.
Rust is an iron oxide, usually red oxide formed by the redox reaction of ironand oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture. Several forms of rust are distinguishable both visually and by spectroscopy, and form under different circumstances.[1] Rust consists of hydrated iron(III) oxides Fe2O3•nH2O and iron(III) oxide-hydroxide (FeO(OH), Fe(OH)3).
Given sufficient time, oxygen, and water, any iron mass will eventually convert entirely to rust and disintegrate. Surface rust is flaky and friable, and it provides no protection to the underlying iron, unlike the formation of patina on copper surfaces. Rusting is the common term for corrosion of iron and its alloys, such as steel. Many other metals undergo similar corrosion, but the resulting oxides are not commonly called rust.[citation needed]
Other forms of rust exist, like the result of reactions between iron and chloride in an environment deprived of oxygen. Rebar used in underwater concrete pillars, which generates green rust, is an example. Although rusting is generally a negative aspect of iron, a particular form of rusting, known as "stable rust," causes the object to have a thin coating of rust over the top, and if kept in low relative humidity, makes the "stable" layer protective to the iron below, but not to the extent of other oxides, such as aluminum.[2]
From a tour of White Is. volcano NZ taken 14y before the devastating 2019 eruption. A sulphur mining venture began on the island in 1885, but this stopped abruptly in 1914 when part of the crater wall collapsed, and a landslide destroyed the sulphur mine and miners' village. The collapse created a lethal lahar - a fast-moving pyroclastic mudflow - that engulfed the 12 miners living on the island. Their bodies remain entombed under hardened rock, more than 100 years on.
Another relatively short-lived mining venture began in the 1920s. These are the remains of those early sulphur production operations.