Rust -- iron oxide -- is a poor conductor of electricity, which is why an electronic device with a rusted battery usually won't work. Despite this poor conductivity, an electron transferred to a ...

image: Iron oxide (rust) is a poor electrical conductor, but electrons in iron oxide can use thermal energy to hop from one iron atom to another. A Berkeley Lab experiment has revealed exactly ...

But on Mars, the magma ocean would not have reached more than about 2,200 °C. In such an ocean, iron oxide would have been perfectly stable.

The simple explanation for the Red Planet's color is that its regolith, or surface material, contains lots of iron oxide — the same compound that gives blood and rust their hue.

Unprecedented detail on how rust happens Date: February 4, 2019 Source: DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Summary: Like iron flowing through the blood stream, iron minerals course through ...

Turning rust back to iron is something scientists said could never be done. Impossible, they said, like the dream of ancient alchemists of turning metal into gold. But an Englishman named Ian Ashdo… ...