IN view of recent work, on the rusting of iron, the following simple experiment Will be of interest. It is the result of a number of attempts to devise a simple method—for class-demonstration purposes ...

DURING the past few months the study of the chemical changes involved in the rusting of iron has been coming to the fore. In 1888 Crum Brown pointed out that iron remained free from rust in an ...

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