Iron objects often acquire a thin film of brownish substance on their outer coating. This substance is rust and the process of its formation is rusting. Chemically, when iron comes in contact with oxygen and water, a reaction takes place to form iron oxide (rust).
This can be represented by the equation: $$Fe + O_{2} + H_{2}O \rightarrow Fe_{2}O_{3}$$
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