13. Kelly is the dishes and decides to unfortunately wash her mother cast iron skillet by placing it in a sink full of water. After she's done washing it and leaves it to dry on the rack, she notices it's starting to turn weird colors. After first she thinks nothing of it until her mom calls her to the kitchen a day later as she's putting the dishes up. She is holding the iron skillet and she looks very upset. She shows Kelly how the iron has changed colors and tells her the skillet is ruined. What happened to the iron skillet considering if this is a physical or chemical property and which of the Metal VS Nonmetal properties has taken place?

In the context, Kelly kept the iron skillet in the sink which is full of water. After washing the dishes, she noticed the skillet's color is starting to change. She kept it for dry on the rack but the day later the skillet was ruined and damaged.

It was a chemical and physical change in the property of the metal where the iron skillet which was kept in the sink full of water oxidized due to the water content and the iron got oxidized to form form iron oxide which is known as rust. It damages the utensil and the color changes to muddy red or brownish red.