Although the experiments on the corrosion of iron were continued for eighty days, the difference be-;ween the action of common water and brine nay be made apparent in one day. In the resh water ...

In this experiment, one iron nail is wrapped in magnesium, another in copper and one left alone. The nail wrapped in magnesium is not corroded. There is slight corrosion on the normal nail and ...

Prior to running the experiment, the researchers had a hunch that hydrides were to blame for the corrosion, but it took several years of analyzing the data before they could prove this hypothesis.