Metals may seem tough, but given enough time even plain old air can be their undoing. Oxygen reacts with it to form metal oxides like rust, but now it turns out a metal oxide may come to the rescue.

Aluminum is normally protected by a thick oxide layer, but the formation of the amalgam disrupts it. It allows fresh aluminum ...

IT is generally assumed that non-porous oxide films formed on valve metals by anodic oxidation in aqueous electrolytes are normally substantially uniform in thickness and composition. By means of ...