High carbon steel
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Description
Steel is an alloy of Iron with a small percentage of Carbon. The amount of carbon present changes the iron from a soft easily worked metal into an extremely hard brittle metal. High carbon or hard steel contains between 0.7-1.5% carbon. It is very hard and brittle. High carbon steel is used to fortify warships and vehicles and to make rails.
See also Carbon steel.
Synonyms and Related Terms
hard steel; ingot steel; acier à haute teneur en carbone (Fr.); hoog koolstof staal (Ned.); aço de alto teor de carbono (Port.)
Resources and Citations
- G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 161
- Richard S. Lewis, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 10th ed., 1993
- Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996
- Henry Hodges, Artifacts: An Introduction to Early Materials and Technology, Ronald P. Frye, Kingston, Canada, 1988
- The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998