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.
Steel is a purified alloy of iron with carbon which is manufactured in the liquid state. The manufacturing process eliminates almost all of the phosphorus, sulfur, and silicon which exist in common cast iron. The range of carbon content for steels is 0.1 to 1.5%. Low carbon steels (<0.2% carbon) are called mild steels.