A plate of the steel hull of a ship develops a large crack when the ship strikes a reef. Analysis of the steel’s composition shows higher-than-normal levels of an element that could explain why the plate cracked instead of bending. Which element is most likely suspected? iron sulfur chromium nickel

Talc (french chalk) is the ingredient

You would be correct, boiling water does disinfect contamination.    the property of disinfecting means to kill  germs, bacteria and other pathogens or contamination  that might cause an infection or cause a person to become sickly. a couple methods of disinfecting are using soap, other cleaning supplies or by simply "boiling" the contaminate.  the reason why boiling water disinfects certain attributes is because some cells cannot survive the heat and pressure.