Dude, who even knows.
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Anonymous asked:
i've grown up learning that stainless steel is called so because it is resistant to rust and oxidation. it can still very much be stained by other things.
I can see why that would be the criteria that makes for the important, standard type of steel encountered in end-user applications, but couldn’t they have called it “rustproof steel”, or “rustless steel”, like Harry Brearley did? Or “chromium steel”, like how Billy Joel fits the meter in Allentown?
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eightyonekilograms said:
In most languages they do, this just an English weirdness thing. In a bunch of languages, e.g. French, the name is some version of “un-rustable steel” or “un-oxidizable steel”. tototavros liked this
space-wizards said: Alliteration, probably
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