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I'd say a major difference is that steel is an alloy of natural inorganic elements. The components aren't especially toxic, at least not any more than how they already exist in the environment. Microplastics are entirely man made and don't have any natural, decent way to be broken down organically. Would you count sand as a pollutant? It'll last way longer than plastic and we certainly ship it around everywhere. Eating sand is just part of marine life

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True, steels are very specific, even within knife applications. For instance, there are certain steels used for knives for marine environments; they're not usually used outside of those specialty knives because they give up other desireable characteristics for the corrosion resistance.

Which leads me back to why I asked the question. Corrosion/rust resistance is desireable in knives, and that's what this sounded like. Ah, well... maybe it'll inform the next generation of steels.

And I love you, PlutoniumAcid!

I was making a lame attempt at that Bill O'Reilly joke about magnets or whatever, but you're right, they fucking should!

300 series isn’t but 400 series is mildly magnetic

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That's pretty NEAT!