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Originally Posted by Von Beerhofen
Corrosion on metals is the effect of moisture in combination with oxygen. No oxygen no corrosion as far as I know.
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Oxygen is the best known oxidizer (and how it got its name), but not the only oxidizing agent.
Most any substance with Oxygen in it can be an oxidizer, plus all of the group 17 halogens...
You can literally burn (burning is rapid and aggressive oxidation) iron in a Chlorine atmosphere.