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Rusting

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The development of rust on a surface.

    "An example will best make the matter clear, and throw light, perhaps, on many cases of apparently mysterious rustings."

  2. 2
    the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water wordnet
  3. 3
    The phenomenon where the fur of a black cat develops a brown colour when exposed to sunlight.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of rust form-of, gerund, participle, present

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