It is so hot in the blast furnace that carbon monoxide is the reducing agent which reduces the iron(III) oxide. The equation for the reduction of iron(III) oxide in the blast furnace is: ...

IN NATURE of February 21 (p. 390) Prof. W. R. Dunstan states that rusting of iron takes place in the presence of water and oxygen when every trace of carbonic acid has been removed. To a certain ...

Wyndham R. Dunstan in which he represents me as having concluded “that carbonic acid is essential to the rusting of iron, and that rusting does not occur in its absence.” As such a general ...