high-carbon steel
Britishnoun
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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 has absorbed sufficient carbon so that, in the outer portions at least, it is a high-carbon steel.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)
Formidable as this chemical artillery already was, in another ten thousand generations it would eat through every known substance including glass and high-carbon steel.
From The Brain by Blade, Alexander
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)
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