alloy steel

noun

carbon steel to which various elements, as chromium, cobalt, copper, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, tungsten, or vanadium, have been added in sufficient amounts to obtain desirable physical and chemical properties.

First recorded in 1900–05

Alloy steel has a varying but small percentage of other elements mixed with it to give certain desired qualities.

For the first time they went to a forging, the rough contour type of the time, and utilized a chrome-nickel alloy steel.

Take a brain made up of super-charged magnetic crystals enclosed in a leaden cranium and shielded by alloy steel.

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