You are given two test tubes A and B containing equal amounts of water. You are asked to dissolve 1 teaspoon of common salt in test tube ‘B’. If you dip a clean iron nail in each of these test tubes at the same time and keep it for a week then which iron nail will rust faster and why?
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Iron nail will rust faster in salt water.
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salt or more specifically salt solution can speed up the rusting process mainly because it acts as an electrolyte wherein it will allow the metal (iron) to lose its electrons more easily.
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The iron nail in test tube B will rust faster because salt sucks water in so salt water will make metal rust faster.
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