Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.102.158.34-20140908143429/@comment-4010415-20150724143444

LiveandSound wrote: Well, whatever natural steel is, you get my point. Iron would've been a better choice. Like Anon said, steel is a compound, made from mixing two types of metals together.

So, I guess you were trying to say we don't use iron ore, we modify the iron before using it.

Really, though, we melt the iron down, pour it into a cast, and let it cool, so it's shaped the way we want it to be. It's still iron, just a different shape. It went through a physical change, not a chemical one.

We may all just be arguing semantics here, to be honest.