What is stainless steel?

All steels have the identical primary iron and carbon composition, however stainless-steel additionally includes a healthful dose of chromium—the alloy that offers stainless-steel its well-known corrosion resistance.

There are a couple of grades known as stainless-steel, every with barely exclusive alloy composition, and consequently barely exclusive bodily characteristics.

Stainless metallic need to comprise at the least 10.five percentage chromium. Depending at the grade, it is able to comprise an awful lot better chromium levels, and further alloying components like molybdenum, nickel, titanium, aluminum, copper, nitrogen, phosphorous or selenium.