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They should probably change the name of the compound to prevent confusion.

And we have a project named Corrosion: https://github.com/corrosion-rs/corrosion

A true uber geek would see Corrosion and Rust and think its an article about Oxidation, because it makes sense.

In case you referred to the chemical reaction, "Oxidation" is also the name of the project to integrate Rust in Firefox,[1] and in general is semifrequently used to mean the process of rewriting legacy code bases in Rust and thus "oxidizing" them.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation

(Nb. originally Rust was named after the order of parasitic fungi Pucciniales.)

In turn, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus)

> Rusts get their name because they are most commonly observed as deposits of powdery rust-coloured or brown spores on plant surfaces.