• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    Those are all of them, but that’s for a lot of different types of steels. You don’t have to have all of those metals to make steel. You really just need iron and a tiny bit of carbon. A few of your ingredients help with purity, and the rest are additives for different steel properties you may want. Like a touch of nickel for stainless steel.

    • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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      6 months ago

      I searched for ingredients for making steel. I’m obviously not a metallurgist, nor do I pretend to be one on the internet :)

      The meme triggered my interest into discovering just what might be involved.

      Clearly I’ve just scratched the surface …