Chromium steel, commonly referred to as stainless steel, is thought to be a recent manufacturing innovation, but new evidence suggests ancient Persians stumbled upon an early version of this alloy ...

Chromium is a common addition to alloys to make materials like tool steel or stainless steel, and it’s long been thought to have been invented around the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But now, ...

Slag attached to crucible wall, with steel droplet indicated by circle(Courtesy Rahil Alipour, UCL) Broken crucible(Courtesy Rahil Alipour, UCL) As early as the ...

Chromium steel - similar to what we know today as tool steel - was first made in Persia, nearly a millennium earlier than experts previously thought, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

The findings are of very significance as material scientists, historians and archaeologists have long considered that chromium steel was a 20th-century innovation. Published in the Journal of ...

Chromium steel is now known to have been first manufactured in Persia. And most amazing of all, this material was made almost a thousand years earlier than first thought. The landmark research was ...