Summary for recycled steel rusting Discussion
Recycled steel more prone to rusting? The question asks whether repeatedly melting and reusing the same steel would make it more or less resistant to corrosion, and whether any research supports a change in rusting behavior after multiple smelting cycles. In the excerpt provided, only the question is shown; no answerer’s response or research summary appears. So the thread, as given, does not establish that recycled steel becomes more prone to rusting, nor does it provide evidence of improved corrosion resistance from repeated melting. The practical takeaway from the available text is simply that the issue is being asked as a materials-science question, but no conclusion is presented in the excerpt.
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