• Eheran@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    If you coat steel with gold and there is even the tiniest scratch/void/… it will extremely accelerate the rusting. Galvanic corrosion is no joke. That’s why you use zinc for the job.

    • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      The chemistry behind that is magic to me.

      Although I hope my assumption that there are so many applications for cheap gold is likely true, I’m assuming you’ll be able to come up with more uses