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Iron vs. Steel

Iron is in steel, but steel is not in iron... Iron is an element and when a certain amount of carbon is added to iron, it is called steel. Steel isn't pure iron, then, and therefore cannot be interchanged with the word Iron. Since carbon is present in steel but is not a metal, steel is not pure metal. Iron is a pure metal element. That's it. They're not the same.

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