Are some blade steel heavier/lighter than others ?

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I've been curious about that for a while.

I know some steel are built to be lighter than others, like titanium compared to the others, but what about S30V compared to 1095, or 1095 compared to D2 for example ?

I'm stricly speaking about metal usually used on blade.
 
Probably but I'm gonna bet the order of magnitude of the number to decimal places your going to have to go to measure it is very, very large.....So practically no, but probably "technically" yes....
 
Between various common blade steels , no practical difference IMO .

Steel vs plastic composite , ceramic , aluminum , titanium ...then yes !
 
It does vary some based on the alloying elements used, so a heavy element increases density and a light element decreases it (tungsten is heavy, aluminum is light). But functionally the difference is not extreme. In a knife the volume of the blade would have a much greater effect.
 
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