{"id":656,"date":"2024-10-25T16:42:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T16:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2024-10-28T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:11:26","slug":"atoms-and-rust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/atoms-and-rust\/","title":{"rendered":"Atoms and Rust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The companies of the electroplating and finishing industry are in business because manufactured parts corrode over time. However, why do they corrode? What is the actual chemistry that causes rust to form on parts? Simply put, the atoms in parts oxidize (lose electrons, becoming cations) when exposed to oxygen and water. The more atoms oxidize, the greater the corrosion of the part.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/atom1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/atom1.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/atom1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/atom1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/atom1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/atom1-1140x641.png 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rust1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rust1.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rust1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rust1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rust1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rust1-1140x641.png 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The companies of the electroplating and finishing industry are in business because manufactured parts corrode over time. However, why do they corrode? What is the actual chemistry that causes rust to form on parts? Simply put, the atoms in parts oxidize (lose electrons, becoming cations) when exposed to oxygen and water. The more atoms oxidize, the greater the corrosion of the part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmcallahan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}