The organisation of the city appears to have differed from that of other Maya sites and appears to have been geared towards a specialised coastal trade in salt.
Steel is a solid solution, a subtype of chemical mixtures that involve two or more molecules in a solid state that combine to form a single substance while retaining their individual identities. The component metals making up steel are not chemically bonded together. Continue Reading.
Many other substances like steel (formed by mixing carbon solute into iron), and air (nitrogen is the solvent and other gases act as solutes), are all solutions. In a solution, the solute particles get evenly distributed throughout the solvent at a molecular level.