high-carbon steel

noun

1. steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon

Example Sentences

This hook is to be made out of soft Bessemer steel, which of course is very different from high carbon steel.

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The bending gave some trouble, due, it was thought, to the stiffness of the high carbon steel.

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This is used in the crucible process as a convenient source of the carbon needed for high-carbon steel.

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Thus part at least of the carbon which a high-carbon steel is to contain may be supplied by the pig iron from which it is made.

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Low-carbon steel might thus be converted into high-carbon steel, but this is not customary.

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