To cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid.
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Red-orange-brown color resembling iron oxide.
The formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water.
Other meanings for "rusts" 1 They were embroidered with autumn leaves in rusts and shades of gold.
2 And if the saw rusts up over the winter from getting wet?
3 Damp rusts men as it rusts rifles; more slowly, but deeper.
4 If you lose the protection, your car rusts and ages prematurely.
5 He is a calendar of ten years, and marriage rusts him.
6 Her head snaps back, her hair rusts in the moonlight, her eyes focus.
7 His lance rusts upon the wall and his steed stands silent in the stall.
8 In testing, it conforms to blister rusts we've seen before.
9 A burned-out car rusts in memory of the bad times.
10 Abundant wire rusts away by its twisted stakes of steel.
11 Iron rusts and becomes consumed, so that nothing can be constructed of this metal.
12 It eats, and undermines, and rots, and rusts , and destroys.
13 Yes, humour is a moisture which rusts everything except gold.
14 The main reason is that rusts - iron oxides - have the unusual property of being soft and powdery.
15 If it rusts , the body reverts to inhuman instincts.
16 Unlike silver, bronze, copper, or any of the metals, only gold neither tarnishes nor rusts .
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