The organisation of the city appears to have differed from that of other Maya sites and appears to have been geared towards a specialised coastal trade in salt.
Steel is a solid solution, a subtype of chemical mixtures that involve two or more molecules in a solid state that combine to form a single substance while retaining their individual identities. The component metals making up steel are not chemically bonded together. Continue Reading.
But at the low pH end (that is, the acid end), iron or steel dissolves into the acid; acids are very corrosive! But guess what . . . you may not see rust! That's because rust will dissolve into the acid even more readily than the iron.