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3 Types of steel
Carbon steel
Damascus steel
, which was famous in ancient times for its flexibility, was created from a number of different materials (some only in traces), essentially a complicated alloy with iron as main component.
Stainless steel
s and
surgical stainless steel
s contain a minimum of 10.5%
chromium
, often combined with
nickel
, and resist
corrosion
(
rust
). Some stainless steels are non-magnetic.
Tool steel
s
HSLA Steel
(High Strength, Low Alloy)
Alloy steel s
ferrous superalloys
4 Production methods
Crucible technique
or
puddling
- the original steel making technique, developed in
India
as
wootz
, used in the
Middle East
as
Damascus steel
and independently redeveloped in
Sheffield
by Benjamin Huntsman in 1740, and Pavel Anosov in
Russia
in 1837.
Bessemer process
, the first commercial scale steel production process
Open hearth furnace
Basic oxygen steelmaking
5 See also
Steel producers
Alloys
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