high-carbon steel

British  

noun

1. steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon

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Example Sentences

The phrase high-carbon steel is basically marketing hype: every steel alloy used to make knives is high-carbon.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2019

But that fence of that vendor, Wayne Lyall, was made of thin bars of high-carbon steel set less than an inch apart, resistant, he said, to the most powerful bolt cutter.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2014

It�ll have a head made of high-carbon steel carefully forged and tempered to make it both hard and tough.

From Time Magazine Archive

Remember that high-carbon steel hardens at a lower heat than low-carbon steel, and quench when at the right heat in the two above ways, and 99 per cent of the trouble will vanish.

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

We know that high-carbon steel makes a better cutting tool than low-carbon steel.

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