Stainless steel Rusting

By jwright650 (*****)

Date 03-16-2005 19:51

http://chemistry.about.com/library/blfe.htm

Click on the link above for Fe

John Wright

By G.S.Crisi (****)

Date 03-17-2005 19:29

Au is the chemical symbol of gold, so it DOES NOT contain any iron.
Fe is the chemical symbol of iron, so, whatever Mar means (martensitic perhaps?) it CONTAINS iron.
Stainless steel, as any other steel, CONTAINS iron.
Where does rusting come into the picture?
Giovanni S. Crisi
Sao Paulo -
Brazil

By OSUtigger (**)

Date 03-17-2005 21:12

Perhaps austinitic, ferritic, and martensitic? I hate it when people do that too...

gls

By jwright650 (*****)

Date 03-17-2005 21:30

gls,
You probably figured out what he was trying to state with the designations.
John Wright

By jwright650 (*****)

Date 03-17-2005 21:27

Hi Giovanni,
I knew those elements too except he asked specifically if it had Fe iron in it, so I posted the element chart.
Au is gold, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out the "Mar". At first I thought maybe it was a typo, so I was looking at the keyboard at all the letters close to it and then I saw no resemblance of anything on the element chart, so I gave up.
John Wright

By - Date 03-19-2005 00:34

I'm missing something here... The topic of this particular forum was rusting of stainless steel. So, what is the question? I guess the author never got to that point. <smile>

CM