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rust

On-Yomi: ショウ

Koohii stories:

1) [ikmys] 5-9-2007(29): The easiest place to spot rust is when it grows on blue metal. All of my cars have been blue, and as soon as the first red rust appears, its off to the scrapheap.

2) [Elphalpo] 16-7-2010(13): Metal gets the blues when it starts to rust.

3) [mantixen] 29-7-2009(12): The blue oxidation that forms on metals like copper is a form of rust.

4) [billyclyde] 2-11-2007(3): Rust in these parts comes about when a METAL is exposed to anoxygen, which results in a strange form of BLUE rust covering them, unlike the rust-colored/cinnabar (#2038 丹) we're used to.

5) [Meconium] 3-3-2010(2): When the gold wedding ring I gave my fiancee started to show signs of rust, her face turned blue with anger, and I was forced to tell her I bought it in Chinatown for fifty bucks (although the vendor assured me it was 22 carat gold).

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