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low-carbon steel

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noun

  1. engineering steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Auto makers will have to “compensate” for the 10% of fleet emissions allowed under this rule by using allegedly low-carbon steel produced in Europe, for instance.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 24, 2025

They will also be expected to use low-carbon steel made in the EU in the vehicles they produce.

From BBC Dec. 16, 2025

But the growing demand for low-carbon steel, the spread of renewable energy, and advanced electrodes able to withstand molten iron have changed that picture.

From Science Magazine Apr. 30, 2024

And my point is: How about financing the low-carbon cement, low-carbon steel, low-carbon paper by adding C.C.S. to their production?

From New York Times Jun. 13, 2022

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 Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin

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