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Jeremy Irons irons.
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Circa 2005, white lines left in respect to the original cropper.
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🤓 Actually almost all modern clothes irons are made with an aluminium* soleplate now, to minimize corrosion. The soleplate makes up most of the metal content of the iron, and is then coated with a thin layer of non-stick coating like non-stick paint, plastic/polymer, or stainless steel.
https://www.madehow.com/Volume-6/Clothes-Iron.html
*I'm Australian.
Stainless steel is just fancy iron, but it is still iron.
My computer has some gold in it, but I wouldn't characterize my computer as 'gold'. Same way modern irons have almost no iron in them. 🤷
It's not just to minimize corrosion, it also heats up more quickly and evenly and cools down more quickly. There's a reason most heatsinks are aluminum, it's an excellent conductor of heat.