carbon steel

noun

steel owing its properties principally to its carbon content; ordinary, unalloyed steel.

carbon steel

First recorded in 1900–05

For welding heavy steel castings, a rod of rolled carbon steel is employed.

This hook is to be made out of soft Bessemer steel, which of course is very different from high carbon steel.

Carbon steel is very difficult to weld and it can be done only by the use of borax or some other flux.

A low carbon steel, for example, may contain less carbon than a given sample of wrought iron.

If melted, it would lose its fibrous structure and be changed into a low carbon steel.

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