What is surgical steel for?

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The search for the optimal composition of steel for the production of knives has been carried out since the time when people replaced flint tools with metal ones. With the development of medicine, in particular surgery, the issue has become especially acute.

Surgical steel was needed to make a hard and durable blade. Such a blade should keep sharpening for a long time, not be afraid of exposure to water or active chemicals. In addition, the metal from which surgical knives are made must not cause allergies.

Over time, such a composition was found. Today it is known as surgical steel. Its composition, in addition to iron and some other impurities, includes 10% nickel, 18% chromium. Products from this alloy are very widespread.

Today, surgical steel is used to manufacture:

• medical instruments;
• jewelry;
• hours;
• dishes;
• high-end office supplies.

What are the advantages of modern surgical steel?

1. Products from it are obtained very dense, practically free of pores, homogeneous. Therefore, instruments are easy to disinfect and germs cannot grow on them. Any contamination is easily removed.
2. Chromium-nickel steel is so hard that it is difficult to damage it. At the same time, surgical steel is not afraid of bumps and scratches: it is not brittle.



3. The alloy is not afraid of active substances, it does not oxidize.
4. The hardness of the alloy allows you to make a very thin and sharp blade that will not dull for a long time.
5. Despite the presence of nickel and chromium, surgical steel is non-toxic.

It is precisely this property (lack of toxicity) that jewelry manufacturers have taken note of.

It is known that absolutely all people use jewelry. Rings and earrings, chains, pendants and other jewelry are very popular.

Made of gold, silver and platinum, they are very expensive, not everyone can buy them.

Another thing is jewelry made with surgical steel.

Products made from it have the same properties as medical instruments: they aredurable, lightweight, hypoallergenic, and retain their original shape well. Surgical steel does not change its appearance from contact with the skin, is not afraid of either sunlight or sea water.

Surgical steel rings, however, like all other products, are very beautiful. Today it is very fashionable, especially for men, to wear steel jewelry. She has a very presentable appearance, sophisticated, refineddesign. It is interesting that steel jewelry is popular not only among punks and other youth movements. Respectable Japanese, for example, have long preferred steel to gold wedding rings. Men's steel ring for every day adorns the fingers of some famous businessmen in the US, Norway and even sophisticated France.

Elite men's jewelry made of surgical steel, which is not inferior to expensive items made of gold and platinum, is gaining more and more popularity. Not the least reason for this is the reasonable prices, exceptional conciseness and expressiveness, a wide range, which is constantly replenished by masters of steel jewelry.