it feels weird to us that steel is the alloy and iron is the pure metal, but stuff sold as "steel" is generally purer iron than stuff sold as "iron"
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this is not true of alloy steels (meaning steels that contain significant amounts of stuff other than carbon and iron) by the way. stainless steels in particular can have less than 50% iron in them with the sheer amount of chromium and nickel and stuff that's added

but carbon steels are purer iron than cast iron or wrought iron
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