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To: NVDave

Note: You can’t have steel without carbon, that’s
what makes it steel. Otherwise it’s just wrought iron.
Cast Iron is when you have too much carbon.


17 posted on 08/22/2012 8:14:40 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Check out the metallurgy on Maraging steels. You can have steel without carbon, but you must add something else - in this case, nickel.


25 posted on 08/22/2012 5:56:21 PM PDT by NVDave
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