r/oddlysatisfying • u/Dependent-Play-7970 • 2d ago

Average laser cleaning

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u/Dio_Yuji 2d ago

Where does the rust go? Does it evaporate? Or does the laser turn it back into unrusted iron? Someone explain this to a guy who was bad at science in school

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u/littlebipper 2d ago

A quick google search told me it is turned into a gas through either vaporization or sublimation so yeah it essentially evaporates the solid debris materials.

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u/XandaPanda42 2d ago

I just thought the heat was enough to break the iron oxide back into iron and oxygen, like regular smithing would do.

Vaporized iron dust is probably not a good thing to breathe in.

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u/[deleted] 21h ago

Who doesn't want rusty lungs???

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u/XandaPanda42 20h ago

Now that you mention it, I do have low iron... hmm.