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Hard steel   /hɑrd stil/   Listen
Hard steel

noun
1.
Steel with more than 0.3% carbon.






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"Hard steel" Quotes from Famous Books



... carbon in solid solution. The alloys of iron and carbon exist under several forms. Pearlite is a heterogeneous mixture containing 0.8 per cent. carbon. When heated to 670 degrees, it becomes homogeneous, an amount of carbon up to two per cent. dissolves in the iron, and hard steel or martensite is formed. In appearance, however, the two forms are so nearly identical as to be discriminated only by careful microscopical examination. Cementite is a definite compound of iron and carbon represented by the ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86



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