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The description states: Material: 400CC Steel. Googling 400CC Steel shows only shopping offers, not the articles or tables about steels.

How do I look up materials? Is it a good tool steel or some cheap powder one? Is there any comprehensive material ID database around?

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There are many types of standards which provide Steel Grades. The one you mentioned seems to be of SAE Steel Grades.

400 --> is a 400 series steel

C --> has Carbon

C --> has Chromium

All steels of 4xx are usually Molybdenum steels and have Ni and Cr apart from Carbon

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All you can gauge from that description is the general family of stainless, which in this case refers to the specific grain structure and general chromium content. I would propose approaching the "how good is it?" question by looking at other similar tools. What are they made out of? Are they 5x as expensive as the one you're looking at? You will have to use inference to determine if the manufacturer chose the "best" material for the application.

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