chrome steel

{{Short description|Chromium-containing steel alloy}}

{{For|chrome steel as a rarely used historical or alternative name|stainless steel}}File:Chromed steel knife.jpg

Chrome steel is the name for any one of a class of non-stainless steels such as AISI 52100, SUJ2, 100Cr6,{{Cite web |title=AISI E 52100 Steel (100Cr6, SUJ2, UNS G52986) |url=https://www.matweb.com/search/DataSheet.aspx?MatGUID=d0b0a51bff894778a97f5b72e7317d85&ckck=1 |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=MatWeb}} En31, 100C6, and DIN 5401 which are used for applications such as bearings, tools, drills and utensils. Like stainless steel, chrome steels contain chromium, but do not have the corrosion-resistant properties of stainless steel.{{Cite web |last=Bearings |first=Pacamor Kubar |date=November 1, 2010 |title=Ball Bearing Steel: 440C Vs. 52100 In A Corrosive Environment |url=https://www.pacamor.com/ball-bearing-steels-440c-vs-52100-in-a-corrosive-environment/ |website=Pacamor Kubar Bearings}} It has been made from ferrochrome{{Cite book |last=Jeans |first=James Stephen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tOZZAAAAYAAJ |title=Steel: Its History, Manufacture, Properties, and Uses |date=1880 |publisher=E. & F.N. Spon |pages=526 |language=en}} since it was developed around 1877 by J. B. Boussingault and {{Ill|Henri Aimé Brustlein|fr}} of Jacob Holtzer steelworks in Unieux, France.{{Cite book |last=Cobb |first=Harold M. |url=https://pustaka.sttw.ac.id/assets/file/ebook/pdf/EB139.pdf |title=History of Stainless Steel |date=June 2010 |publisher=ASM International |isbn=978-1-61503-011-8 |location=Materials Park |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715222105/https://pustaka.sttw.ac.id/assets/file/ebook/pdf/EB139.pdf |archive-date=July 15, 2024}}

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