Search the Dictionary

Same as Wootz.

Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace.

See under Low.

Cast steel containing a considerable percentage of manganese, which makes it very hard and tough. See Alloy steel, above.

A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.

Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.

A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.

See under Open.

A steel in which the amount of phosphorus exceeds that of carbon.

Puddled steel. [U. S. ]

See under Shear.

See Open-hearth steel, under Open.

Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron.

A variety of steel, elastic, strong, and tough, rolled for springs, etc.

Rolled steel in structural shapes.

Hard steel, usually crucible steel, capable of being tempered so as to be suitable for tools.

A steel containing a small amount of tungsten, noted for tenacity and hardness, even under a considerable degree of heat. Magnets made of it are said to be highly permanent. It often contains manganese.

To disarm; to soften. Richardson.

A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion.

Same as Tungsten steel.