Stainless steel
A corrosion-resistant steel alloy family containing sufficient chromium to form a protective passive layer, named as a bulk material rather than a surface finish or color.
How it connects
Stainless steel is a kind of Steel.
Stainless steel includes Stainless steel 304, Stainless steel 316, Stainless steel 316L and Stainless steel 430.
Stainless steel is filed under Metal.
Stainless steel is typically found in Commercial Kitchen.
Other kinds of Steel: Carbon steel, Galvanised steel and Weathering steel.
In other taxonomies
- Stainless steelUniclass, Ma_40_52_83_82nearly the same
- stainless steelGetty AAT, 300010920nearly the same
- stainless steelWikidata, Q172587nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
4 terms, Stainless steel to Galvanised steel
Narrower than Stainless steel
Record
- Seen in the wild
- stainless
- Broader
- Steel
- Relations
- Typically in Commercial Kitchen
- Provenance
- evidenceda search benchmark in a materials-retrieval system (src-05) (244-query external search corpus; phrase and admission evidence: Stainless steel; canonical boundary authored by Taxonomy); https://worldsteel.org/about-steel/what-is-steel/, read 31 Jul 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/stainless-steelKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderSteeloutgoing
- narrowerStainless steel 304outgoing
- narrowerStainless steel 316outgoing
- narrowerStainless steel 316Loutgoing
- narrowerStainless steel 430outgoing
- typically-inCommercial Kitchenoutgoing
- broaderStainless steel 304incoming
- broaderStainless steel 316incoming
- broaderStainless steel 316Lincoming
- broaderStainless steel 430incoming
- narrowerSteelincoming
- typically-containsCommercial Kitchenincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Steeloutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Ferrous metaloutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Metaloutgoing
- descendant (derived)Stainless steel 304outgoing
- descendant (derived)Stainless steel 316outgoing
- descendant (derived)Stainless steel 316Loutgoing
- descendant (derived)Stainless steel 430outgoing
- sibling (derived)Carbon steeloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Galvanised steeloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Weathering steeloutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Ma_40_52_83_82 | Stainless steel | nearly the same |
| Getty AAT | 300010920 | stainless steel | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q172587 | stainless steel | nearly the same |