which is the strongest of these two metals? iron or steel.....?
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Steel is stronger than Iron, But Iron Maiden are better than Steel-Eye-Span......
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Ferrous metals (iron/steel) rust and non-ferrous (aluminum/copper) metals oxidize.\nBoth are chemical reactions and effects of oxygen and moisture present in the atmosphere.\nBTW, ferrous metals are magnetic, non-ferrous metals aren't. Try it.
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Gold and silver are not ferromagnetic materials and so do not have any magnetic properties. \n\nThe following explanation is from school for science.com  \n\n"Ferromagnetic materials are strongly attracted by a magnetic force. The elements iron (Fe), nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co) and gadolinium (Gd) are such materials. \n\nThe reasons these metals are strongly attracted are because their individual atoms have a slightly higher degree of magnetism due to their configuration of electrons, their atoms readily line up in the same magnetic direction, and the magnetic domains or groups of atoms line up more readily. \n\nIron and steel\nIron is the most common element associated with being attracted to to a magnet. Steel is also a ferromagnetic material. It is an alloy or combination of iron and several other metals, giving it greater hardness than iron, as well as other specialized properties. Because of its hardness, steel retains magnetism longer than iron.\n\nPermanent magnets\nAlloys of iron, nickel, cobalt, gadolinium and certain ceramic materials can become "permanent" magnets, such that they retain their magnetism for a long time."\n\nTry looking at the website for more information. Hope that helps!
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Ok, you have lots of concepts.  1st, alloys are mixtures of metals, not a metal.  Second, you listed a bunch of different kinds of strength.  Stainless steel is stronger than titanium alloys for some applications.  Titanium has a SLIGHTLY higher heat capacity.  Alluminum alloys are fairly strong as well, but it's strength by weight, not strength by volume, which is what engineers need.  Not only that, but alot of metal alloys are "strong" to the point of unusable because they're not able to be shaped.
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Steel is manufactured by alloying iron and carbon.  Stainless steel has a high nickle content.\n\nWikipedia Excerpt: Perhaps as early as 300 BC, although certainly by AD 200, high quality steel was being produced in southern India also by what Europeans would later call the crucible technique. In this system, high-purity wrought iron, charcoal, and glass were mixed in crucibles and heated until the iron melted and absorbed the carbon. One of the earliest evidence of steel making comes to us from Samanalawewa area in Sri Lanka where thousands of sites were found. (Ref. Juleff, 1996).
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It's probably steel, since that offers a good combination of strength, light weight, and low price.  Have you tried a magnet on the metal parts of it?  \n\n If it's not steel, maybe it's stainless steel (which tends to be non-magnetic depending on the alloy) or aluminum, but those are quite a bit more expensive than regular sheet steel.
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you mean ferrum it is nothing but the latin name of iron.\n\nIron is the most abundant metal on Earth, and is believed to be the tenth most abundant element in the universe. Iron is also the second most abundant element by mass, making up 34% of the mass of the Earth; the concentration of iron in the various layers of the Earth ranges from high (how much is "high?") at the inner core to about 5% in the outer crust. It is possible the Earth's inner core consists of a single iron crystal, although it is more likely to be a mixture of iron and nickel. The large amount of iron in the Earth is thought to create its magnetic field (you mean to say this isn't known for sure?).\n\nIron is a metal extracted from iron ore, and is almost never found in the free elemental state. In order to obtain elemental iron, the impurities must be removed by chemical reduction. Iron is used in the production of steel, an alloy or solid solution of different metals, and some non-metals, particularly carbon.\n\nNuclei of iron have some of the highest binding energies per nucleon, surpassed only by the nickel isotope 62Ni. The universally most abundant of the highly stable nucleides is, however, 56Fe. This is formed by nuclear fusion in the stars. Although a further tiny energy gain could be extracted by synthesizing 62Ni, conditions in stars are not right for this process to be favoured. When a very large star contracts at the end of its life, internal pressure and temperature rise, allowing the star to produce progressively heavier elements, despite these being less stable than the elements around mass number 60, known as the "iron group". This leads to a supernova.\n\nSome cosmological models with an open universe predict that there will be a phase where as a result of slow fusion and fission reactions, everything will become iron.
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mrcury...cause mercury has more specific gravity than a steel and water, meaning to say mercury will settle down and steel will float on it ...i think water has 1 s.g and mercury has 13.6 s.g. not sure bout steel...
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Tungsten is the strongest metal known to man at this time
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The three types of ferrous metals are cast irons, steels, and iron.\n\nThe link will give applications of each.
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in order to be ferro magnetic a material must contain ferrous or translated from latin - Iron.  If it doesn't have iron then it can't be ferro-magnetic.  Iron is magnetic because of the fact that it has one valence electron in its outer orbit and is a metal.
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Well, technically, ferrous means "of iron".  So no, it's not ferrous :)\n\nIt is magnetic, however, though not as much as iron or other metals.
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Ferrous metals are those in the vicinity of iron on the Periodic table.  They aren't actually made, per se.  They were created as the end products of stars being made and decaying.  I forget the exact detail these days; but iron (element 55?) is the heaviest one that can be made by fusion in stars, and is in very low concentrations. Elements heavier than iron are made by particle capture, decay, and whatever else.\n\nIron is extracted from its ores by various means, depending on the ore
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Structural steel ASTM-A36 400 650   \nSteel, high strength alloy ASTM A-514 690 760   \nSteel, high tensile 1650 1860   \nSteel, Piano wire  2000   \n\nrest below
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iron as a pure material is natually in the alpha state because it is most energetically favorable.  With the addition of carbon to create steel many more phases are stable depending on temperature and carbon content.  beta steel does not exist because is is less stable at any given temp-composition state than at least one of the other possible phases.  See the attached link for a good iron-carbon phase diagram
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Hardened steel cannot bend like iron, due to it's crystallic structure, if it is forced to bend, it brakes.
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That depends on the alloy of steel you are talking about. Most steel has other metals added to tune its properties, like strength, corrosion resistance, or ease of fabrication. Steel is just the element iron that has been processed to control the amount of  carbon. Iron, out of the ground, melts at around 1510 degrees C (2750°F). Steel often melts at around 1370 degrees C (2500°F).