Are iron and steel nonferrous metals?
Iron, manganese and chromium are ferrous metals, and other metals are nonferrous metals.More importantly, both non-ferrous metals and ferrous metals are within the limits of purity. Steel is an alloy of carbon and iron, a mixture, an alloy, and not a metal.What we commonly call iron and steel is steel. It is not a non-ferrous metal.
The broad range of nonferrous metals also includes nonferrous alloys. A nonferrous alloy is an alloy consisting of one or more other elements with a base (usually greater than 50%) of a nonferrous metal.
Narrow sense non-ferrous metals, also known as non-ferrous metals, iron, manganese, chromium, all metals except the general term.
