vanadium steel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of vanadium steel
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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It used a strong, lightweight vanadium steel alloy to improve durability and featured a high ground clearance engineered to navigate dirt roads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other airmen of yours have just reported that nothing can be found but ruins of the Socialist refuge, there—nothing but those, and the half-melted vanadium steel identification-tags of your best scouts!
From The Air Trust by England, George Allan
Yet if it had not been for vanadium steel we should have no Ford cars.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.
They also use a quantity of vanadium steel imported from America and furnished by the American Vanadium Company.
From A Journey Through France in War Time by Butler, Joseph G. (Joseph Green)
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