Amazing Facts about Steel

Facts about steel

• Steel is a Low maintenance metal
• The melting point of the steel is 1500 degree.
• The weight of the Steel is 7850 kg per cubic meter.
• The specific gravity of steel is 7.85.
• Tensile strength is excellent
• Shear strength of steel is also goo.
• Steel is a good conductor of heat.
• Steel product can be recycle without loosening the strength.
• Whenever you buy steel’s product, you’re always buying recycled Product.
• Stainless steels contains at least 11 % of chromium, often combined with nickel, to resist corrosion. It was developed on an industrial scale in Sheffield by Harry Brearley 100 years ago.
• the St. Louis Arch is covered in 886 tons of stainless steel
• Stainless steel is also known as inox steel or inox from the French ‘inoxydable’
• Stainless steel does not readily corrode, rust or stain with water like ordinary steel does
• The earliest known use of the phrase steel band in a musical sense was in the late 1940s..

• in the environment where the oxygen is low ,poor circulation and high salinity.the stainless steel will not be fully stain proof

• The stainless steel is not a good conductor of electricity
• Harry Brearley invented the steel in 1913.
• the flow of electric current in the steel will stop or slow down the rust in steel.
• to slow down the rust the zinc is coated on the steel.this steel is known as galvanized steel..
• the chromium actually combine with oxygen to form a protective layer over the stainless steel which causes it to rust slower
• More than 150 grades of stainless steel are present
• Some of the stainless steel can have magnetic properties,but not all
• China is considered as the largest manufacturer of the Steel.