alloy steel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of alloy steel
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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“There’s a run on steel,” said , owner of Ohio-based Allied Machine & Engineering Corp., which has imported specialty alloy steel from Western Europe for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2018
Oil pipeline companies, which need special gathering lines, casings and tubing made of alloy steel, have no choice but to look overseas. according to John Stoody, vice president of the Association of Oil Pipe Lines.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2018
Aluminium has gone up, alloy steel, stainless steels.
From BBC ● May 5, 2011
Curtiss-Wright Corp. has developed a method to squeeze out airplane propeller blades like toothpaste by forcing red-hot alloy steel through dies under enormous pressure.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would appear that the intensification of the properties due to chromium and manganese in the alloy steel accounts for this peculiar phenomenon.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)
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