can aluminum rust?

Answer 1

Bare Aluminum metal will oxidize to Al2O3 in a fairly short time. You can verify this by taking a pen knife and scraping the Aluminum oxide off of a lawn chair, seeing the bright bare metal, and coming back the next day and seeing that a hard layer of the oxide is now covering the bare metal.

Unlike iron oxide (FeO) or rust, Al2O3 is NOT soluble in water and so it does not flake off like rust does. Therefore the process of oxidizing stops as soon as the hard layer of Al2O3 is formed. Iron oxide flakes off, exposing more bare iron, continuing the rusting process, which is the oxidation of iron.

Answer 2

Does Aluminum Rust

Answer 3

Rust is Ferium Oxide. Ferium is Iron and Oxide is the oxidation of oxygen on something else(simply put anyway). What will happen to aluminum is Aluminum Oxide. Obviously very similar in the effect and process. The difference is that it takes much longer and is not as apparent. This is often also due to the fact that most Aluminum items are not pure aluminum and that aluminum has a different level of heat and electrical conductivity. The answer is yes, it will "rust" but that rust is different from the conventional iron/steel rust everyone thinks of.

Answer 4

Aluminum oxidizes just as iron does. We just don't call the results rust. And the results of iron and aluminum oxidation are quite different. When iron combines with oxygen in the air to form iron oxide, otherwise known as rust, the result is destructive in that the rust weakens the iron. When aluminum oxidizes it forms aluminum oxide which forms a protective coating on the aluminum which helps prevent further oxidation.

Answer 5

Rust refers to iron and steel. Aluminum does not rust. However aluminum alloys rust.

Answer 6

This Site Might Help You.

RE:
can aluminum rust?

Answer 7

For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl.im/IVZfQ

Aluminium is a chemical element and metal. Aluminium nails would be nails made of this elements. Corrosion/rust is the contact of metals with oxygen (another chemical element and part of the air around us), the process is alled oxidation. The best example is the metal iron reacting with oxygen from the air and the result would be rust. (it works better with water as ths contains more of the element oxygen). The surface becomes reddish-brown and briddle, more oxygen can penetrate the metal and in the end the piece of metal breaks, "it rustes away". Alumumium does react withs oxygen but only on the surfcae, in common language you could say its "rusts". The surface than looks greyish. But in comparison to iron this forms a protecting layer on the surface of the aluminum, no oxygen can get deeper and the aluminium stays stable. That is one of the reason airplanes are made of a very pure aluminium. They should not rust.

Answer 8

Aluminum can rust or corrode although not typically in the same fashion as steel. corrosion or oxidation in metal comes up a red hue. Corrosion in the the white metal, such as aluminum. Is white in apperance and does affect the surface of the metal. Hence the term, "white rust".

Answer 9

aluminum oxides similar to rust..rust is Iron Oxide

Answer 10

Yes.

"rusting" is a common term referring to "oxidization". Iron "rusts", resulting in "rust", which is ferric (or ferrous) oxide - iron oxide.

Aluminum certainly will oxidize, and rather quickly. It will get a grayish appearance. This is aluminum oxide: Al2 - O3.