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low-carbon steel

British

noun

engineering steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon

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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

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

Governments, he said, could incentivize the use of low-carbon steel for building and infrastructure by requiring state-funded projects to use low-carbon versions of designated construction materials.

From Salon • May 17, 2022

The transmission gears will be of high-carbon steel and the differential of low-carbon steel, carburized.

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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