Steel and strength are two words that often go together. But while often used in the context of its properties as a building material – steel is roughly 1,000 times stronger than raw iron – the ...

Steel or Iron: Steel is stronger than iron because it is not a pure metal but a refined mixture created to improve strength, hardness, and durability. Iron is a natural element found in the earth, but ...

Automakers are tweaking production processes to create a slew of new steels with just the right properties, allowing them to build cars that are both safer and more fuel-efficient. By John Johnson Jr.

“For the given density, our material is the strongest known,” Seok-Woo Lee, a materials scientist at the University of Connecticut and coauthor of a resulting study published in the journal Cell ...

World’s largest steel company is U. S. Steel Corp. So basic is the steel industry that U. S. Steel earnings satisfy many a student as the index of U. S. prosperity. Prosperous was U. S. Steel in 1928, ...