{"id":1904,"date":"2023-11-20T07:53:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T23:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:03:22","slug":"iron-nails-for-corrosion-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/iron-nails-for-corrosion-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Nails for Corrosion Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Bullet Head nails from Bunnings work well<\/li>\n<li>3, 4 or 5mm diameter mild steel round bar from a steel supplier. This is a softer iron alloy, so it will rust more readily. Very cheap.<\/li>\n<li>Black rod ties, for rebar<\/li>\n<li>Zinc plated, non-galvanised nails from Bunnings rust the best.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would suggest using fine steel wool, as most steel nails are not pure steel anymore and are also coated in oil to prevent rusting.<br \/>\nRoll the steel wool into tiny balls and use in a test tube, if you get rust stains in the test tubes after the experiment, just rinse with a little concentrated HCl.<\/p>\n<p>I got normal nails and soaked them in acid to remove the plating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bullet Head nails from Bunnings work well 3, 4 or 5mm diameter mild steel round bar from a steel supplier. This is a softer iron alloy, so it will rust more readily. Very cheap. Black rod ties, for rebar Zinc plated, non-galvanised nails from Bunnings rust the best. I would suggest using fine steel wool, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}