soft steel

American  

noun

1. mild steel.

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Etymology

Origin of soft steel

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

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soft steel

Radus began by building an unusually strong magnet, a slice of ceramic material sandwiched between flat plates of soft steel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Swords rode on their hips, singing their soft steel song as they rattled in their scabbards.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Herring was another American who invented celebrated safes, made with a boiler-iron exterior, a hardened steel inner safe, with the interior filled with a casting of franklinite around rods of soft steel.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

Therefore, when the current is conducted through the copper wire into the soft steel ball, it will immediately rise up the wire, by the repulsion of negative gravity.

From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth

The piece of soft steel is placed between the limbs of c c' of the old mainspring up to the line a, Fig.

From Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology by Anonymous