White Steel

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Genre: Places

Medium: Black & White

Date Taken: 2007-08-29

Categories: Macro

Camera: Sony DSLR-A100

Exposure: f/6.3, 1/320 seconds

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Photo Version: Original Version

Date Submitted: 2007-08-29 13:02

Viewed: 357

Points: 2

[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note

A still life of a gate lock of a local golf course in Surrey near my house, and now, I like steel so much that I am going to give you a small talk about it, enjoy. Steel is an alloy consisting mostly of iron, with carbon content, Carbon is the most cost-effective alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used such as manganese and tungsten. Carbon and other elements act as a hardening agent, preventing dislocations in the iron atom from sliding past one another.
Though steel had been produced by various inefficient methods long before the Renaissance, its use became more common after more efficient production methods were devised in the 17th century. With the invention of the Bessemer process in the mid-19th century, steel became a relatively inexpensive mass-produced good. Further refinements in the process, such as basic oxygen steelmaking, further lowered the cost of production while increasing the quality of the metal. Today, steel is one of the most common materials in the world and is a major component in buildings, tools, automobiles, and appliances. Modern steel is generally identified by various grades of steel defined by various standards organizations.

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