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Re:Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium into foods du... by smokefoot on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @08:16PM (#30622120)
Doesn’t chrome and moly make it stainless?
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Re:Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium into foods du... by metal_am on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @09:23PM (#30622547)
It’s the chromium. Cookware usually has nickel too. When a pan is advertised as 18-8, they mean roughly 18%Cr-8%Ni. Basically the same as 304 stainless steel. You have molybdenum additions in something like 316 stainless steel.
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Re:Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium into foods du... by kragen on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @08:34PM (#30622251)
I think it depends on the amount, though I'm no expert.
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