{"id":2874,"date":"2025-07-30T18:05:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:31:33","slug":"why-do-silcosteel-treated-pieces-have-different-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/faq\/gnot5208\/why-do-silcosteel-treated-pieces-have-different-colors","title":{"rendered":"Why do Silcosteel treated pieces have different colors?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The different colors observed on Silcosteel treated parts indicate different layer thicknesses. A blue color corresponds to a 300 to 450 Angstrom layer while a rainbow color indicates a coating of at least 1200 Angstroms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colors associated with layer thickness are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/figure-article-GNOT3398-02-1024x369.jpg\" alt=\"a blue and purple gradient scale showing colors associated with thickness of treatments\" class=\"wp-image-2882\" title=\"-\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thick depositions used in Silcosteel-CR processes are 5\u00b5m to 20\u00b5m deep and have a silver\/metallic grey appearance. The photos below show colors created by Sulfinert (left) and Silcosteel-CR (right) deposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/figure-article-GNOT3398-03-1024x468.jpg\" alt=\"a close up of Sulfinert and Silcosteel-CR depositions on stainless steel\" class=\"wp-image-2876\" title=\"-\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The different colors observed on Silcosteel treated parts indicate different layer thicknesses. A blue color corresponds to a 300 to 450 Angstrom layer while a rainbow color indicates a coating of at least 1200 Angstroms. Colors associated with layer thickness are: Thick depositions used in Silcosteel-CR processes are 5\u00b5m to 20\u00b5m deep and have a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2689],"industries-application":[],"post-badge":[],"resource-type":[],"product-library":[],"resource-technique":[],"hf_cat_post":[625],"ppma_author":[414],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","tag-faq-surface-treatments"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":23,"label":"FAQ"}],"post_tag":[{"value":2689,"label":"FAQ: Surface Treatments"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Restek Corporation","author_link":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/author\/restek-corporation\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":23,"name":"FAQ","slug":"faq","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":271,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":23,"category_count":271,"category_description":"","cat_name":"FAQ","category_nicename":"faq","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":2689,"name":"FAQ: Surface Treatments","slug":"faq-surface-treatments","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2689,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"Browse frequently asked questions for surface treatments.","parent":0,"count":32,"filter":"raw"}],"authors":[{"term_id":414,"user_id":11,"is_guest":0,"slug":"restek-corporation","display_name":"Restek Corporation","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Restek_Favicon_300x300.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Restek_Favicon_300x300.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71460,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/71460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"industries-application","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industries-application?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-badge?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"resource-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-type?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"product-library","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-library?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"resource-technique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-technique?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"hf_cat_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hf_cat_post?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}