carbon steel
n
(Engineering / Metallurgy) steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
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| Noun | 1. |  carbon steel - steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it containssteel - an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range drill rod, drill steel - carbon steel used for rock drills and dowels eutectoid steel - a steel that contains 0.9% carbon (the eutectic point); a carbon steel with 0.9% carbon is pure pearlite hyper-eutectoid steel - a steel that contains more than 0.9% carbon hypo-eutectoid steel - a steel that contains less that 0.9% carbon |
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