• nBodyProblem@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      What do you think carbon steel is made from?

      Cast iron and steel are largely similar materials, cast iron just has the carbon precipitated out of solution instead of trapped in a crystalline structure

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      4 days ago

      good lord. steel is iron and carbon, just not so much carbon it becomes brittle and called cast iron