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Q: What element is the main component of steel and the most widely used of all metals?
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What element is the main component in steel and is magnetic?

This element is iron (Fe).


What uses dose this element nickel have outside of the medical field?

Nickel is an important alloying component for steel an other metals; nickel is used also as coating.


Is steel a metalloid?

No, steel is an alloy of metals as opposed to an element. Elements can be metalloids, but compounds cannot.


Which is not a pure element aluminum sodium steel?

Steel: It always contains some carbon and often other metals in addition to iron.


What element is a door made of?

Doors vary in composition and are rarely composed of a single element. Many doors are made of wood, which is not an element but a mixture of compounds. The primary component is cellulose, a compound of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Doors may also be made of various metals such as aluminum, iron, steel (a mixture of iron, carbon, and possibly other metals), and galvanized metal (metal coated with a layer of zinc).


Steel is formed when a little bit carbon is added to this element?

Iron (Fe) is the main component of steel. Steel is formed when iron is mixed with carbon or other elements.


What is element in alloy steel?

Steel always contains iron and carbon, and often contains cobalt, chromium, molybdenum, or other metals.


Is steel alloy a element or compound?

mixture


Can platinum be made from stainless steel?

No. Platinum is a naturally occurring element. It comes from mines. Stainless steel is a metal made mainly of the element iron but with a few other metals, none of which are platinum.


Is stainless steel electrically conductive?

Yes, in common with all metals, stainless steel is a conductor, but it is not widely used as such. There are some, specialist, applications -such as stainless steel coatings to railway conductor rails.


Is silverware a element or a compound?

Most silverware is made of compounds, more than one element. It is made of metals, usually silver or silver compounds such as stainless steel.


What metal rusts?

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