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.
One of the most vastly used alloys, steel is a combination of iron with a small amount of carbon, which gives the alloy a different type of crystal arrangement within allowing the crystal layer to slide past one another and thus giving the alloy properties like resistance to oxidation and strength.