Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
LOL you guys crack me up, Way, way to much science involved there,,, In my eyes, I have already decided that anything over 1 hour risks rust, the rest is all just for fun and because I had the razors, the glasses, and the alcohol already set up with the camera...
To be totally honest I will probably never soak a razor just a wipe down and let it dry

In fact the only thing that has surprised me is the SS razor is doing so well...
I don't think we have to look much further than the fact that alcohol exposed to the air is colder than that air, colder than water would be, and the razors become cold with it. So moisture condenses on the part that is exposed to the air. It doesn't much matter whether that water vapour rose from the surface of the liquid, or was naturally present in the atmosphere. It is just what would happen to cold and newly-buffed steel stood in cold water, or in some climates without it. The next stage in the experiment ought to be standing a razor in pure water, and dropping in an ice cube every hour or so.

Incidentally no pure liquid will cause rust. It needs water plus dissolved oxygen. If you have some compelling reason to store a razor in alcohol, just fill the vessel to the top and cap it tightly. I believe the same would apply with freshly boiled water. Hot water dissolves more of a solid, but cold water dissolves more of a gas.

Kinetic energy is the energy which an object has by virtue of its motion, examples being a bullet or a brick you drop on your toe. If the alcohol has kinetic energy, i wouldn't stand in its way. There are quotation marks in the thread that mentioned it, and it would be useful to know the source being quoted, so that we can avoid it.


I think the most important information to be gleaned from this experiment is that the "rust" produced was mostly the relatively harmless black oxide, and extremely shallow. In no way did it confirm the results seen in the previous thread. I still think the presence of another metal in a conducting liquid is the most likely explanation for what happened there.