Ferrous and non-ferrous metals

Non-ferrous metals are metals that do not contain iron. There are two groups of metals; ferrous and non-ferrous. Ferrous metals contain iron, for example carbon steel, stainless steel (both alloys; mixtures of metals) and wrought iron. Non-ferrous metals don't contain iron, for example aluminium, titanium, brass and copper (can be remembered as ABC). You can also get non-ferrous metals as alloys eg brass: copper + zinc.