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Method Used For The Prevention of Rusting

This document discusses four main methods for preventing rusting of iron and steel: 1. Using a protective layer such as paint, oil, grease, or plastic coating to keep iron and steel from contacting air and water. 2. Using less electropositive metals like tin or chromium for plating iron, which form protective oxide layers. However, tin plating has disadvantages if the coating breaks. 3. Using more electropositive metals like zinc for galvanizing iron, since zinc will corrode before iron in contact with air and water via cathodic protection. 4. Creating alloys like stainless steel that contain chromium, which forms a protective chromium oxide layer preventing rust.

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Method Used For The Prevention of Rusting

This document discusses four main methods for preventing rusting of iron and steel: 1. Using a protective layer such as paint, oil, grease, or plastic coating to keep iron and steel from contacting air and water. 2. Using less electropositive metals like tin or chromium for plating iron, which form protective oxide layers. However, tin plating has disadvantages if the coating breaks. 3. Using more electropositive metals like zinc for galvanizing iron, since zinc will corrode before iron in contact with air and water via cathodic protection. 4. Creating alloys like stainless steel that contain chromium, which forms a protective chromium oxide layer preventing rust.

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METHOD USED FOR THE PREVENTION OF RUSTING

Using a protective layer

Using less electropositive

metals Using more electropositive (reactive) metals Using alloys

USING A PROTECTIVE LAYER


Rusting of iron and steel can be prevented by

keeping them away from air (oxygen) and water.


A layer of paint, oil, grease or plastic coating

protects the iron surface from coming into contact with air and water.

Without the presence of both air and water,

rusting of iron cannot occur.


Oil and grease are usually used for movable

machine parts.
Plastic are usually used for household articles

such as flower pot stands, coat hangers and so on.


Painters are used for bigger objects such as

car bodies, fences, gates and bridges.

USING LESS ELECTROPOSITIVE METALS


A. Plating iron with tin
Tin is not an electropositive metal and is resistant to

oxidation by water and air.

Iron plated with tin is used making food cans. Also makes the articles shiny and more attractive in

appearance.

However, there is one disadvantage in tin plating

because tin is less electropositive than iron.


If the tin coating is broken, the iron beneath it will rust

even more rapidly because iron is more electropositive than tin.

B. Plating iron with chromium


Chromium is a metal that is resistant to rusting. When

chromium is exposed to water and air, an impermeable, non-brittle oxide layer is formed.
The oxide layer acts as a protective layer to prevent

iron beneath it from coming into contact with water and air at the atmosphere
Car bumpers, bicycle handles and pipes are

chromium plated to prevent corrosion.

USING MORE ELECTROPOSITIVE METALS


Galvanising is the coating of iron or steel with zinc

for protection with from corrosion.


Galvanising is carried out by dipping the iron

object into molten zinc or by electroplating.


Zinc coated iron is known as galvanised iron

Even if the layer of zinc is scratched or broken,

the iron does not rust.


This is because zinc is more electropositive than

iron and will corrode first.


Zn (s) Zn2+ + 2e ..Oxidation This method of rust prevention is called cathodic

protection. The metal zinc is known as sacrificial metal because zinc is scarified in the protection of iron from rusting.
Galvanises iron are used for making zinc roof and

gutter

C. Using Alloys
The best known rust-resistant alloy of iron is

stainless steel.
Stainless steel contains 10-20% nickel and 10-

25% chromium.
When exposed to the air, a hard layer of

chromium (III) oxide is formed on the surface of iron and prevents the iron from rusting.
Stainless steel os used to make surgical

instruments and kitchen wares such as knives, forks and spoons.

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