Comment on Tesla Cybertruck May Have A Rust Problem
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 4 months agoStainless has chromium added. Iron is still the main element. Different stainless steels have various other elements added, like molybdenum. There’s a wide range of SS for various purposes. Not sure which one they used.
mellitiger@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 months ago
You are absolutely right, just for clarity:
Chromium needs to be > 12 weight-%. If you take 18 w-% Cr and 8 w-% Ni you get an austenitic steel which is (normally) neither magnetic nor able to be hardened.