... that by the end of the Ninth Siege of Gibraltar the defending soldiers had resorted to eating leather from their garments and plants growing on the garrison walls?
Heavy rust on the links of a chain near the
Golden Gate Bridge in
San Francisco. It was continuously exposed to moisture and salt-laden spray, causing surface breakdown, cracking, and flaking of the metal. In colloquial usage, "rust" refers to red
iron(III) oxide and is formed by the reaction of
iron and
oxygen in the presence of water.
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... that by the end of the Ninth Siege of Gibraltar the defending soldiers had resorted to eating leather from their garments and plants growing on the garrison walls?
Heavy rust on the links of a chain near the
Golden Gate Bridge in
San Francisco. It was continuously exposed to moisture and salt-laden spray, causing surface breakdown, cracking, and flaking of the metal. In colloquial usage, "rust" refers to red
iron(III) oxide and is formed by the reaction of
iron and
oxygen in the presence of water.
This Wikipedia is written in
English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains
4,096,482 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.