5 results for “rust”

1. Chemistry

   Chemical Reactions

   rusting, cooking and digesting are all chemical reactions: atoms swapping partners to make new substances. Here

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2. Plants & Fungi

   Fungi

   rust and blight in crops. Potato blight, a fungus-like organism, caused the Irish famine of the 1840s

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3. Matter, Energy & Physics

   Atoms

   rusting to breathing to burning, is electrons moving between atoms. The familiar picture of electrons orbiting

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4. Planets & the Solar System

   Mars

   rust. Iron minerals in the soil have oxidised over billions of years, coating the planet in fine

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5. Planet Earth

   Inside the Earth

   Beneath your feet lie 6,370 kilometres of rock and metal, hotter than the surface of

   Article · 4 min read