Specialty steels and other iron alloys have specialized or proprietary compositions or properties that are specifically engineered for certain service conditions. There are different variations of ...

For example, brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. It is stronger than copper or zinc alone: Copper and zinc atoms have different sizes. This distorts the regular lattice structure in brass ...

The alloy is harder and stronger than the pure metal. Steel contains atoms of other elements as well as iron. These atoms have different sizes to iron atoms, so they distort the layers of atoms in ...