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MKM steel
steel,
MKM steel an alloy containing nickel and aluminum, was growing electronics sector and allowed the miniaturiza-
developed in 1931 by the Japanese metallurgist tion of components used in personal electronics and the
Tokuhichi Mishima. While conducting research into the communications, aviation and automobile industries.
properties of nickel, Mishima discovered that a strongly MKM is an acronym for Mitsujima ka magnetic, ’Mit-
magnetic steel could be created by adding aluminum to sujima ka’ being the name of the inventor’s childhood
non-magnetic nickel steel. home.
MKM steel is tough and durable, inexpensive to pro- MKM steel is similar to Alnico.
duce, maintains strong magnetism when miniaturized
and can produce a stable magnetic force in spite of tem-
perature changes or vibration. These properties made
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MKM steel ideal for various applications in the rapidly
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