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The narrative connects rust’s chemical causes to real-world consequences, including historical and Cold War impacts, corrosion-driven failures, and modern issues such as contaminated materials. A central case involves old ships in Suisun Bay, where regulations and environmental constraints complicate remediation.","|  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Thank you for downloading this Simon &\u003Cbr>Schuster eBook.\u003Cbr>Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases , deals , bonus content and other great books\u003Cbr>from Simon & Schuster. |  |\n|  |  |  |\n| \u003Cbr>CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP |  |  |\n\nor visit us online to sign up at  \n[eBookNews.SimonandSchuster.com](eBookNews.SimonandSchuster.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nEpigraph  \nPreface: AJanky Old Boat  \nIntroduction: 􀁫e Pervasive Menace  \n1. A High-Maintenance Lady  \n2. Spoiled Iron  \n3. Knives 􀁫at Won’t Cut  \n4. Coating the Can  \n5. Indiana Jane  \n6. 􀁫e Ambassador  \n7. Where the Streets Are Paved with Zinc  \n8. Ten 􀁫ousand Mustachioed Men  \n9. Pigging the Pipe  \n10. Between Snake Oil and Rolexes  \n11. 􀁫e Future  \nEpilogue  \nPhotographs  \nAcknowledgments  \nAbout Jonathan Waldman  \nForMom and Dad, and whoever bought that stupid sailboat  \nOnly entropy comes easy.  \n—ANTON CHEKHOV  \nPREFACE: AJANKY OLD BOAT  \nThey say a lot of things about boats. 􀁫ey say a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into. 􀁫ey say boat stands for “bring out another thousand.” 􀁫ey say that the pleasures of owning and sailing a boat are comparable to standing, fully clothed, in a cold shower while tearing up twenty-dollar bills. Consequently, they say that the best day of a sailor’s life, aside from the day he buys a boat, is the day he sells it.  \nIgnoring all of this wisdom, I bought a forty-foot sailboat. 􀁫is was atthe end of 2007. She was in San Carlos, Mexico, at a pretty marina on the Sea of Cortés. 􀁫ere were palm trees and haciendas, with deep sparkling water to the west, a rugged volcanic tower to the east, and an immaculate Sonoran sky overhead. With two friends, we split her three ways. I’d thought she was a bargain, but the marina was more bonita than our new boat.  \nOur sloop was thirty years old, and showed her age. 􀁫ere were little rust rings around every screw on the deck, rust stains on the stanchions, bow pulpit, and pushpit, streaks of rust down the topsides. A white powder surrounded the rivets in the mast. 􀁫e jib car tracks had corrodedso badly that there was a layer of goop beneath them. Some of the bronze through-hulls had turned a frightening green, while a few of the seacocks were so corroded that they wouldn’t budge. 􀁫e stainless steel water tanks had rusted, too, and they leaked. Her appearance was at first so grim that I wished we had named her the Unshine, which would have been a very easy change from Sunshine. Instead we chose an obscure Greek word that nobody could pronounce or define.  \nBut if Syzygy had cosmetic defects, we didn’t care. 􀁫en we took her sailing. 􀁫e diesel engine overheated on the way out of the marina, because the heat exchanger was caked up with rust. 􀁫e reef hook had rusted so badly that it snapped the first time we furled the mainsail. Blocks had seized up, and the winches were so tight they offered little mechanical advantage. 􀁫e wind vane almost fell off. Instruments didn’t work, because the copper wires winding through the bilge had corroded  \nso thoroughly that they no longer conducted electrical current. Shackles, turnbuckles, clevis pins, chain plates, backing plates, furler bearings, engine parts, the windlass axle—everything that could rust had rusted. Water, salt, air, and time had taken their standard toll, and corroded my bank account, too. 􀁫at’s how rust ate into my life . . .  \nINTRODUCTION: THE PERVASIVE  \nMENACE  \nRust has knocked down bridges, killing dozens. It’s killed at least a handful of people at nuclear power plants, nearly caused reactor meltdowns, and challenged those storing nuclear waste. At the height of the Cold War, it turned our most powerful nukes into duds. Dealing with it has shut down the nation’s largest oil pipeline, bringing about negotiations with OPEC. It’s rendered military jets and ships unfit for service, caused the crash of an F-16 and a Huey, and torn apart the fuselage of a commercial plane midflight. 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