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Question
Explain impurity defect in stainless steel with diagram
Solution
Pure iron is soft and malleable, whereas stainless steel is hard, strong, less ductile, shiny and bright in appearance.
Stainless steel is an interstitial alloy formed by introducing carbon atoms as impurity.
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