vanadium steel

American

noun

an alloy steel containing vanadium.

vanadium steel British

noun

engineering steel containing up to 0.5 per cent vanadium, usually with 1.1–1.5 per cent chromium and 0.4–0.5 per cent carbon to increase its tensile strength and elasticity

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Etymology

Origin of vanadium steel

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

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The immediate challenge is that the birth of the vanadium battery business is coming just as China is ramping up its demand for vanadium steel.

From BBC

This housing is split horizontally, the upper half carrying the chrome vanadium steel rocker levers.

From Project Gutenberg

They also use a quantity of vanadium steel imported from America and furnished by the American Vanadium Company.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet if it had not been for vanadium steel we should have no Ford cars.

From Project Gutenberg

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!

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