high-carbon steel

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noun

steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon

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How to use high-carbon steel in a sentence

Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
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Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer.
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Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
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The most recent activity had a high point of 3.6 on the Richter Scale.
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He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).
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Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him.
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The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
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The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.
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In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
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As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.
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