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Recycled steel more prone to rusting?

Q. When the same steel is recycled, over and over again, does it get more prone to rusting?

Is there any research to show whether the more you smelt (melt and cool) a piece of iron, the less resistant (or the more resistant) to corrosion it becomes?

Charles Micallef
Amateur researcher: I publish outside academia - Malta
June 18, 2018

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