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Dissolve Rust

This life hack is pretty cool. You can actually use a bit of vinegar and aluminum foil to clean and get rid of rust. All you need to do is rub a bit of vinegar either on the rust or on a piece of balled-up aluminum foil. The resulting chemical reaction will allow you to easily rub away the rust with the piece of foil. Two different chemical reactions make this possible.

The acidity of the vinegar reacts with the iron oxide — or rust — and then the aluminum foil works to steal oxygen molecules away from the iron oxide. The result is that the rust basically dissolves as it loses atoms to the aluminum.