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stainless steel

chromium-containing steel alloy resistant to corrosion
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stainless steel

Summary

stainless steel is a material[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of material entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,554 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • stainless steel is credited with the discovery of Harry Brearley[3].
  • stainless steel's instance of is recorded as material[4].
  • stainless steel is a type of alloy steel[5].
  • stainless steel's Commons category is recorded as Stainless steel[6].
  • stainless steel comprises chromium[7].
  • stainless steel comprises steel[8].
  • stainless steel's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1872[9].
  • stainless steel's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Stainless steel[10].
  • stainless steel's has characteristic is recorded as corrosion resistance[11].
  • stainless steel's different from is recorded as high-quality steel[12].
  • stainless steel's history of topic is recorded as history of stainless steel[13].
  • stainless steel's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14].
  • stainless steel's hardness is recorded as {'amount': '+250'}[15].

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Works and Contributions

stainless steel is credited with the discovery of Harry Brearley[3].

Why It Matters

stainless steel ranks in the top 2% of material entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,554 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 110 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d 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 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 15964, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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