alloy steel

noun

carbon steel to which various elements, as chromium, cobalt, copper, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, tungsten, or vanadium, have been added in sufficient amounts to obtain desirable physical and chemical properties.

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Origin:
1900–05

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alloy steel
noun
steel who characteristics are determined by the addition of other elements in addition to carbon

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