Answer my question with a question

[Lord Clisto of York]

Are we getting kinky now?

[festmum]

Kinky?  Are you referring to sticky armour?

[irish]

Does the good Knight, need help removing his kinky armour??   

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

Is kinky armor the same as rusty armor?

[Welsh Wench]

Is it the same as a rusty zipper? 

[Rage]

Rust is the common name for a very common compound, iron oxide. Iron oxide, the chemical Fe2O3, is common because iron combines very readily with oxygen -- so readily, in fact, that pure iron is only rarely found in nature. Iron (or steel) rusting is an example of corrosion -- an electrochemical process involving an anode (a piece of metal that readily gives up electrons), an electrolyte (a liquid that helps electrons move) and a cathode (a piece of metal that readily accepts electrons). When a piece of metal corrodes, the electrolyte helps provide oxygen to the anode. As oxygen combines with the metal, electrons are liberated. When they flow through the electrolyte to the cathode, the metal of the anode disappears, swept away by the electrical flow or converted into metal cations in a form such as rust.

For iron to become iron oxide, three things are required: iron, water and oxygen. Here's what happens when the three get together:

When a drop of water hits an iron object, two things begin to happen almost immediately. First, the water, a good electrolyte, combines with carbon dioxide in the air to form a weak carbonic acid, an even better electrolyte. As the acid is formed and the iron dissolved, some of the water will begin to break down into its component pieces -- hydrogen and oxygen. The free oxygen and dissolved iron bond into iron oxide, in the process freeing electrons. The electrons liberated from the anode portion of the iron flow to the cathode, which may be a piece of a metal less electrically reactive than iron, or another point on the piece of iron itself.

The chemical compounds found in liquids like acid rain, seawater and the salt-loaded spray from snow-belt roads make them better electrolytes than pure water, allowing their presence to speed the process of rusting on iron and other forms of corrosion on other metals.

So yes it would be similar.

Why is everyone looking at me? Did I say something geeky?

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

Did anything interesting happen while I was falling asleep reading that last question?

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

Should we shoot Rage now for that lengthy post detailing rust?

[Rage]

Walk the plank for boring a fellow pirate or be shot by a lady.....which should I choose?

[DonaCatalina]

If you walk the plank, will he still be bored?

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

Wouldn't shooting him end everyone's boredom of reading his post?

[Lady_Glorianna]

Wouldn't just skiping it be less messy?

[Rage]

Nope because the post would still be there. Are you a good shot Delany? Wouldn't you be embarrassed if shot me and I lived through it?

[NoBill Lurker]

But what if she was using a cannon?

[Rage]

Then I would have to be real quick or really lucky wouldn't I.