Part one of term paper
Iron is a silvery solid white metal that can be found in Group VIII of the periodic table. Iron’s atomic weight is 55.847 and its atomic number is 26. Its chemical symbol is Fe. Iron can be found in the Earth’s crust and is the fourth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust. Rust, otherwise known as the corrosion of iron, forms wh ...

Part two of term paper
... to prevent iron from rusting: (1) alloying the iron so that it will be chemically resistant to corrosion which is the most satisfactory method of the three but also is the most expensive. A good example of this method is stainless steel. (2) Coating the iron with a material that will react with the corroding substances more readily than the iron does which leads it to protect the iron from corroding. This method is also satisfactory but is also expensive. The most common example of this metho ...