IRON (IMAGE)

Rice University

IRON

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Iron (blue) can react with trace amounts of water to produce corrosive chemicals despite being bathed in “inert” supercritical fluids of carbon dioxide. Atomistic simulations carried out at Rice University show how this reaction happens.

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Illustration by Evgeni Penev/Rice University

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