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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (15 children)

These are the required elements for making steel:

  • Iron
  • Carbon
  • Manganese
  • Chromium
  • Phosphorus
  • Sulphur
  • Nickel
  • Molybdenum
  • Titanium
  • Copper
  • Boron

Source: https://www.cliftonsteel.com/education/11elementsfoundinsteel

So, iron is only step 1. Humans are carbon based lifeforms, so I'm guessing that carbon is also sorted, that's step 2.

There's plenty of other elements in the human body, like phosphorus and sulphur, but I'm guessing that it's going to take more than 300 adults.

Source: https://sciencenotes.org/elements-in-the-human-body-and-what-they-do/

Source: https://sciencenotes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/PeriodicTableHumanBody.png

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Those are all of them, but that's for a lot of different types of steels. You don't have to have all of those metals to make steel. You really just need iron and a tiny bit of carbon. A few of your ingredients help with purity, and the rest are additives for different steel properties you may want. Like a touch of nickel for stainless steel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I searched for ingredients for making steel. I'm obviously not a metallurgist, nor do I pretend to be one on the internet :)

The meme triggered my interest into discovering just what might be involved.

Clearly I've just scratched the surface ..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This thread is giving me massive deja vu. I'm pretty sure I read almost this exact thing six months ago.

Beep boop are you a bot?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Me, nope, just bored.

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