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Originally Posted by JLV
From what I've been able to gather, it seems that Steel lacks the attributes of "cold iron" for whatever reason.
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The main problem with this approach is that in the real world, iron and steel are basically the same thing(s). Cast iron has way more carbon than virtually anything anybody ever labeled steel, Bessemer steel is purer than any historical piece of wrought iron, etc.
Essentially steel is the more widespread Germanic word, while iron seems to have been first been used for this sort of material only later in Old English (and probably meant something like holy or raging metal, cognates likely include irate, estrus, and the Greek stem hiero-)