Steel
An alloy of iron with carbon at or below two percent by mass, as EN 10020 bounds it.
How it connects
Steel is a kind of Ferrous metal.
Steel includes Carbon steel, Galvanised steel, Stainless steel and Weathering steel.
Steel is filed under Metal.
Other kinds of Ferrous metal: Cast iron, Iron and Wrought iron.
In other taxonomies
- SteelUniclass, Ma_40_52_83nearly the same
- steel (alloy)Getty AAT, 300133751nearly the same
- steelWikidata, Q11427nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Steel
4 terms, Steel to Wrought iron
Narrower than Steel
The word “steel”
2 meanings
- SteelMaterial, this termNo default
- steelColorScope named colorNo default
Record
- Broader
- Ferrous metal
- Narrower
- Carbon steel · Galvanised steel · Stainless steel · Weathering steel
- Provenance
- referencedhttps://worldsteel.org/about-steel/what-is-steel/; EN 10020:2000, read 30 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/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
- broaderCarbon steelincoming
- narrowerFerrous metalincoming
- broaderGalvanised steelincoming
- broaderStainless steelincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderFerrous metaloutgoing
- narrowerCarbon steeloutgoing
- narrowerGalvanised steeloutgoing
- narrowerStainless steeloutgoing
- narrowerWeathering steeloutgoing
- broaderWeathering steelincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Ferrous metaloutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Metaloutgoing
- descendant (derived)Carbon steeloutgoing
- descendant (derived)Galvanised steeloutgoing
- descendant (derived)Stainless steeloutgoing
- descendant (derived)Weathering steeloutgoing
- descendant (derived)Stainless steel 304outgoing
- descendant (derived)Stainless steel 316outgoing
- descendant (derived)Stainless steel 316Loutgoing
- descendant (derived)Stainless steel 430outgoing
- sibling (derived)Cast ironoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Ironoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Wrought ironoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Ma_40_52_83 | Steel | nearly the same |
| Getty AAT | 300133751 | steel (alloy) | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q11427 | steel | nearly the same |