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apparently some tool companies market their tools as being "iron carbide"

you... do know that's just steel right
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i guess they might mean it has a hardened edge or something because hardened steel has a higher carbon content but i think it's just marketing nonsense going off of the hardness of tungsten carbide and silicon carbide
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i wonder why they don't use boron nitride in tools, is it too hard to shape?
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@IceWolf nah it's perfectly harmless, they use it for high temperature crucibles in chemistry labs
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