WOK this way (was RE: [Sca-cooks] If you only had one cooking pot)

[Terry Decker]

Mild steel is steel with a carbon content of under .3%.  It is commonly used 
as structural steel, is relatively easy welding, and good cold bending 
properties.  Mild steel is a common usage, which is easily misunderstood, so 
people who deal in it refer to specific steels by standard and grade.

Bear


>>Huh. Mild steel shouldn't be brittle- it can't be- has no carbon (or 
>>minimal)
>>to harden it up (given proper temperature treatment).
>
> So is "mild steel" iron?  You said in a previous e-mail
>
>>Iron and steel go through an interesting set of name changes. Iron is iron
>>when it has no carbon in it at all, then becomes steel when it has 1 0r
>>2/100th of a percent carbon in it- it's then rated as 10xx, the xx being 
>>the
>>numbers (from 00 to 99) that indicate how many hundredths of a percent of
>>carbon is in it, for simple steels, meaning they contain only carbon and 
>>iron.
>
> Or is it something else?  I've got stainless steel and cast iron, and 
> wonder what this mild steel is.
>
> Sandra