steel

alloy made by combining iron and other elements
Product alloy Q11427
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steel

Summary

steel is an alloy[1]. steel has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • steel's instance of is recorded as alloy[3].
  • steel is a type of ferroalloy[4].
  • steel's Commons category is recorded as Steel[5].
  • steel's color is recorded as grey[6].
  • steel comprises iron[7].
  • steel comprises carbon[8].
  • steel's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1865[9].
  • steel's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Steel[10].
  • steel's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Steels[11].
  • steel's Commons gallery is recorded as Steel[12].
  • steel's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • steel's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[14].
  • steel's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • steel's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • steel's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[17].
  • steel's topic has template is recorded as Template:Steels[18].
  • steel's different from is recorded as Çelik[19].
  • steel's different from is recorded as Acél[20].
  • steel's different from is recorded as wrought iron[21].
  • steel's different from is recorded as cast iron[22].
  • steel's density is recorded as {'unit': 'Q844211', 'amount': '+7850'}[23].
  • steel's fabrication method is recorded as steelmaking[24].
  • steel's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q135934329[25].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for steel include Steelton[26], a borough of Pennsylvania[27], in United States[28], founded in 1866[29]; Pact of Steel[30], a contract[31]; steel blue[32], a color[33]; 1943 steel cent[34], a coin type[35], in United States[36]; Azovstal[37], a business[38], in Russia[39], founded in 1933[40], headquartered in Mariupol[41]; Nanjing Iron and Steel Company Limited[42], a business[43], in People's Republic of China[44], founded in 1999[45], headquartered in Nanjing[46]; and Baoshan Iron & Steel[47], a business[48], in People's Republic of China[49], founded in 2000[50], headquartered in Shanghai[51].

Why It Matters

steel has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] steel is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]

Entities named for steel include Steelton[26], a borough of Pennsylvania[27], in United States[28], founded in 1866[29]; Pact of Steel[30], a contract[31]; steel blue[32], a color[33]; 1943 steel cent[34], a coin type[35], in United States[36]; Azovstal[37], a business[38], in Russia[39], founded in 1933[40], headquartered in Mariupol[41]; and Nanjing Iron and Steel Company Limited[42], a business[43], in People's Republic of China[44], founded in 1999[45], headquartered in Nanjing[46].

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  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . simetric.co.uk. simetric.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

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  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  19. [51] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [52] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag steel
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: steel, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289958048|steel (#289958048)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 10d ago · Legonin · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Larousse id divers/wd/18422
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P6058]]: divers/wd/18422"
  3. 15d ago · Tholzheim · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Factgrid item id Q1790775
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8168]]: Q1790775, adds FactGrid ID"
  4. 23d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0003558-ocel
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0003558-ocel, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259490|batch #259490]]"
  5. 7w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tensile modulus of elasticity {'unit': 'Q53448922', 'amount': '+210'}
    Density {'unit': 'Q844211', 'amount': '+7850'}
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) 4162669
    Topic has template Template:Steels
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 11737, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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