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stainless steel

chromium-containing steel alloy resistant to corrosion
Product material Q172587
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Summary

stainless steel is a material[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of material entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,329 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Harry Brearley[3]
  • Subclass of: alloy steel[4]
  • Commons category: Stainless steel[5]
  • Has part(s): chromium[6], steel[7]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1872[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Stainless steel[9]
  • Has characteristic: corrosion resistance[10]
  • Different from: high-quality steel[11]
  • History of topic: history of stainless steel[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13]
  • Hardness: 250[14]

Why It Matters

stainless steel has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 139 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Infovarius · 2026-08-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → material
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: type of mixture of chemical entities"
  2. 7w ago · Baum64 · 2026-08-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → chromium, steel
    Has use → ['Q860861', 'Q43483', 'Q39546', 'Q81944']
    Has part(s) of the class → Q725
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Has part(s) of the class: chromium, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269334|batch #269334]]"
  3. 8w ago · Baum64 · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → material
    Has use → ['Q860861', 'Q43483', 'Q39546', 'Q81944']
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Instance of: type of chemical entity"
  4. 8w ago · Baum64 · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has use → ['Q860861', 'Q43483', 'Q39546', 'Q81944']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Has use: sculpture, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269302|batch #269302]]"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003333-korozivzdorne-oceli
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003333-korozivzdorne-oceli, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Different from → high-quality steel
    Hardness → {'amount': '+250'}
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2262439
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 15964, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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