Over millions of years this created an oxygen-rich atmosphere that rapidly removed electrons from minerals near the surface, creating rust out of iron and forming thousands of new minerals from other metals like nickel, copper and uranium.

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Eventually, we cut the line at some point the hook would fall, or rust, out of the shark's mouth.

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Rust began sending out 1.4 million of the 4.2 million payments last Friday.

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When the good luck runs out, stem rust can destroy the entire harvest in an infected area.

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He showed few signs of rust, however, striking out four in a row at one stretch in his 7 1-3 innings.

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Huts painted lilac, turquoise and pink stand out against a rust-coloured hillside.

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In the ancient oceans, green rust's ability to pull nickel out of the water would have been critical for some life forms, since nickel is an important nutrient for microbes that produce methane.

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Nothing to rust, crack, break, or blow out.

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There's even a rust-colored, iron-rich sodium from Tibet, hauled out of salt mines by yaks.

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Mr Rust fantasises that there may come a day when both the Newcastle and Sunderland football teams run out with shirts emblazoned with St Cuthbert's cross.

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