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.

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Etymology

Origin of alloy steel

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

“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

In regard to the machineability, this material is the hardest to machine of any alloy steel known.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)