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alloy steel

American  

noun

  1. 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.


Etymology

Origin of alloy steel

First recorded in 1900–05


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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

Batcheller as president of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. is head of a company that is relatively small in the steel industry but one of the biggest companies in the realm of alloy steel.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Robots of the World! Arise! by Mari Wolf

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