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BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world

2mo ago

I hate cast iron so I am in favour of this.

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React with the steel.. in the cast iron? I'm confused
- Steel is like 98% iron. Sorry for the mistake.
  
  But cast iron doesn't contain steel, it contains iron and carbon
  
  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
  
  But we're talking specifically about cast iron. We're not talking about carbon steel at all, hence my confusion on why it was brought up in this comment chain
  
  good lord. steel is iron and carbon, just not so much carbon it becomes brittle and called cast iron
- cast iron is basically steel, but has it's own name because it's brittle. roughly between half a percent to 3 percent carbon (among other things) is the base of many steels. "cast iron" is about 4 percent carbon and pretty much no ductility

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