rusting

The development of rust on a surface.

Noun

  1. The development of rust on a surface.
    • An example will best make the matter clear, and throw light, perhaps, on many cases of apparently mysterious rustings. - 1899, Scientific American, volume 81, page 309:
  2. The phenomenon where the fur of a black cat develops a brown colour when exposed to sunlight.

Forms

rustings

Derived

antirusting

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of rust