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Date: 15 Jun 2025 00:57:32 GMT
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:27:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> The slight irony is that the name “Rust” does not come from the
> well-known redox reaction that iron undergoes with water in the presence
> of oxygen (catalyzed by a little bit of polar contaminants such as
> common salt), but from the name of a kind of fungus.

Even more ironical, rust is a pathogen that the Romans sacrificed a dog in 
hopes of preventing,

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/robigalia.html