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chrome-nickel steel

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Noun1.chrome-nickel steel - Elinvar is a trademark for a kind of steel used for watch springs because its elasticity is constant over a wide range of temperatures
alloy steel - steel who characteristics are determined by the addition of other elements in addition to carbon


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The tallest building in the world until 1972, with three million square feet of rental space, a bank of 64 elevators racing upward at 700 feet per minute, and a shell fashioned from untarnishable chrome-nickel steel, the Empire State Building remains an icon of capitalism, modernity and mythic New York.
With hardened and ground chrome-nickel steel bevel gears, super precision hardened and ground spindles and high-precision angular contact ball bearings, operations have minimal noise and vibration.
 
 
 
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