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Animatsyesterday at 11:07 PM0 repliesview on HN

Good point. The steel rusts, expands, more water gets in, more rust, concrete cracking, exposed rebar, rebar rusts away, no tensile strength, collapse.

(I was going to link to a picture, but at least half the images of corroded rebar found by search are AI-generated. Bogus technical pictures are getting out of control. Just saw some of the construction of the Panama Canal. No, steam shovels there did not have cowcatchers.)