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Steel's fatal flaw found

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A few nanometres of weakness spell doom for stainless steel.

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  1. Ryan, M. P., Williams, D. E., Chater, R. J., Hutton, B. M. & McPhail, D. S. Why stainless steel corrodes. Nature 415, 770 - 774 (2002).

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