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Anonymous asked:

i've grown up learning that stainless steel is called so because it is resistant to rust and oxidation. it can still very much be stained by other things.

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I can see why that would be the criteria that makes for the important, standard type of steel encountered in end-user applications, but couldn’t they have called it “rustproof steel”, or “rustless steel”, like Harry Brearley did? Or “chromium steel”, like how Billy Joel fits the meter in Allentown?

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