long story short:

Around Wednesday, I set out about 500 rounds of assorted 9mm ammo on my carpet to separate and organize. A few days passed and when I went back to finish, I noticed that these bullets had stained my carpet with a green-ish colored residue. About 300-400 of these bullets had a greenish build up and or some areas of rust. My carpet is not wet or even damp. I'm stumped. I got the stains out of the carpet, but now I wondering what to do with these bullets. I tried wiping them individually with a towel and Hoppes solvent, but it takes like 10 minutes to remove green material but doesn't remove the rust.

What are my options? Im not too worried about restoring the brass to its factory shine, just removing rust and green oxidation.

Can I submerge these live rounds into a rust removal solvent?