Originally Posted by mcoine
uh.. dude, I don't even know where to begin.
Don’t worry man, It's ok to be confused.
It's not that hard… Water is the enemy you displace it with a product that is designed to do that, WD40.
Once you introduce carbon into the latis structure of metallic iron it becomes steel and is no longer iron. Even though it is comprised of elemental iron molecules and carbon on the molecular level.
If you are focusing on the molecules you can’t see the big picture.