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  2. Oxide jacking - Wikipedia

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    Oxide jacking has caused concrete spalling on walls of the Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. The expansive force of rusting, which may be called oxide jacking or rust burst, is a phenomenon that can cause damage to structures made of stone, masonry, concrete or ceramics, and reinforced with metal components.

  3. Concretion - Wikipedia

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    Marleka fairy stone from Stensö in Sweden Iron sulfide concretions, such as the Kansas Pop rocks, consisting of either pyrite and marcasite , are nonmagnetic. [ 79 ] On the other hand, iron sulfide concretions, which either are composed of or contain either pyrrhotite or smythite , will be magnetic to varying degrees. [ 80 ]

  4. Bog iron - Wikipedia

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    Bog ore. Bog iron is a form of impure iron deposit that develops in bogs or swamps by the chemical or biochemical oxidation of iron carried in solution. In general, bog ores consist primarily of iron oxyhydroxides, commonly goethite (FeO(OH)).

  5. Rust - Wikipedia

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    Rust scale forming and flaking off from a steel bar heated to its forging temperature of 1200°C. Rapid oxidation occurs when heated steel is exposed to air. Rust is a general name for a complex of oxides and hydroxides of iron, [4] which occur when iron or some alloys that contain iron are exposed to oxygen and moisture for a long period of ...

  6. Flint - Wikipedia

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    During the Stone Age, access to flint was so important for survival that people would travel or trade long distances to obtain the stone. Grime's Graves was an important source of flint traded across Europe. Flint Ridge in Ohio was another important source of flint, and Native Americans extracted the flint from hundreds of quarries along the ridge.

  7. Nodule (geology) - Wikipedia

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    Devonian nodular limestone Concretionary nodular limestone at Jinshitan Coastal National Geopark, Dalian, China. In geology and particularly in sedimentology, a nodule is a small, irregularly rounded knot, mass, or lump of a mineral or mineral aggregate that typically has a contrasting composition from the enclosing sediment or sedimentary rock.

  8. Cathodic protection - Wikipedia

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    The test results, as reported to and validated by the Competition Bureau, [54] demonstrated that the Auto Saver module being tested was able to cause a shift, in the negative direction, in the electrochemical corrosion potential of the iron in the steel panels, proving the attainment of cathodic protection and the resulting slowdown of the ...

  9. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    Trellium is a silvery red god metal with dark red spots similar to rust. It is the solid form of the Shard Autonomy's power. It is around a 9 on the Mohs Hardness Scale and repels Investiture. Unlike most other god metals in the Cosmere it is not commonly known by name of the vessel of the Shard from which it originates which would make it ...