ChromiumMakes Stainless Steel Stainless
it is used for more than the production of stainless steel and nonferrous alloys; it is also used to create pigments and chemicals used to process leather. Chromite, the only ore of chromium, was first discovered in the United States sometime about 1808 on the farm of Isaac Tyson, Jr., just north of Baltimore, Md. Scattered deposits of chromium minerals in an area of northeastern Maryland and ...