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What elements make up Steel?

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What elements make up Steel?

Steel is an alloy of Iron, Carbon and other small quantities of other elemets like Si, Mn..

The carbon content in a Carbon Steel is between 0.2 to 2%, above 2% the steel is called cast iron.

 

                                                                                                            
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