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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

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

In Germany porcelain tubes replace copper and brass tubing in water, air, fuel and chemical containers; alloy steel supplants copper, bronze and brass in armatures, turbine blades, and food, soap, chemical and synthetic gasoline factories.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is next to impossible to give proper directions for the proper Page 77 annealing of alloy steel unless the composition is known to the operator.

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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