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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Blue View Post
    One of those other mysterious processes with stainless involves an acid bath. It's called passivating and restores the SS resistance to oxidation.
    Yeah, in stainless steels, the chrome in the make-up forms with oxygen... makes chromium oxide just on the surface of the metal (same stuff used for strops... kind of). It's a ceramic by definition. Pretty inert to stuff, but, chlorides eat through it like butter.

    They're probably just coating it with chromium oxide electrolytically or mechanically somehow.
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