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
This plan works well for very low-carbon steel; but for high-carbon steel what is known as the "double annealing treatment" must be given, provided results are wanted quickly.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin
Charred leather is the best annealing material for high-carbon steel, because it prevents decarbonizing taking place.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin
His overwhelming personality radiated an aura of grayness--not the gentle gray of the dove, but the resistless, driving gray of the super-dreadnaught; the hard, inflexible, brittle gray of the fracture of high-carbon steel.
From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
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