One of the most common building materials used today is Steel. There are many things and properties of steel that you don’t know about. From steel production to steel cutting, here are some amazing things about steel that you might have never heard of.
- Steel is an alloy of iron and has small amounts of other elements out of which carbon is most common
- Steel can be 1,000 times as strong as iron
- The magnetic properties of steel make it the easiest material to be separated from the solid waste stream
- Steel can be recycled many times without any loss of strength
- Steel that you buy is always recycled steel
- A steel beam is present inside the doors of a car to better protect the passengers in side-impact collisions
- The steel latches are the ones that keep your car door closed at the time of a crash
- The buckles on your seat belt are made with steel
- The car’s structure or the safety cage is made from steel
- Just one scraped car has the ability to produce more steel than 4 steel utility poles
- 100 % of steel roofs can be recycled
- You can build a steel-framed home with the use of eight recycled cars
- The roofs that are made from steel can last for more than 50 years
- Doors made from steel are fireproof
- Steel door can be more secure as compared to wooden doors
- Steel-framed homes will not crack, split, rot, or twist
- Steel-framed homes are impervious to termites
- The most recycled food packages are the steel food cans
- Over 600 food cans are recycled every second
- Over 1,500 food items are available in steel cans
- The appliance motors are made from steel
- After oil and gas, steel is the second largest industry in the world
- The bridges built from steel are four to eight times lighter than concrete
- Steel is used to deliver renewable energy
- One of the properties of steel is that it expands when heated
- It is costlier to mine iron ore than recycle steel
- You can reduce steel manufacturing waste by reducing thickness
- You can recover a lot of steel from construction and transportation industries
- Stainless steel is corrosion-resistant type of steel
- When electric current passes through steel, the rusting of steel slows down or even stops entirely
The various properties of steel have built the world which we live in. Steel is a material that can be recycled and reused endlessly. Building and manufacturing with steel helps decrease smelting and mining processes, and keeps the air clean and the landfills empty.
