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sort of.
I know (in a broad sense) about alloying and changing the various properties of metals, but I was asking in a more specific sense wrt to locks because I've never seen one advertised to be of a specific alloy or quality, except meaningless marketing like "Kryptonium".
Hence I was asking how you knew the steel in the blackburn was poorer quality than say that in an abus or krypo, although I suppose that's by the empirical test that it was sawn through