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.
Traditional thermochemical treatment on. stainless steel is associated with a loss of. corrosion resistance as nitrogen and car-. bon react with chromium to form carbides/. nitrides, thus withdrawing chromium from. solid solution. In the case of stainless. steels, hardening by thermochemical treat-.