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The Amazing Rusting Aluminum

Rust can hold an airplane together or dissolve it to bits
By Theodore Gray Posted 23.09.2004 at 7:35 am 2 Comments

Unless you are a representative of a national meteorological bureau licensed to carry a barometer (and odds are you’re not), bringing mercury onboard an airplane is strictly forbidden. Why? If it got loose, it could rust the plane to pieces before it had a chance to land. You see, airplanes are made of aluminum, and aluminum is highly unstable.

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