• sparkle@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I can’t think of many things you encounter every day that just use straight iron. Only alloys that use iron

    Meanwhile, you’ll use very pure aluminum all the time

    • labsin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Pure aluminium is only used when you need to have very little reactivity.

      General construction steel has >98% weight iron. Around the same as most aluminium alloys.

      • sparkle@lemm.eeEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Really now? I thought most steel had way more carbon & chromium/nickel/manganese than that. I guess I underestimate how little is needed to make iron no longer mushy.