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carbon steelAlloy of iron and carbon in which the carbon content may range from less than 0.015% to slightly more than 2%. Adding this tiny amount of carbon produces a material that exhibits great strength, hardness, and other valuable mechanical properties. Carbon steels account for about 90% of the world's steel production. They are used extensively for automobile bodies, appliances, machinery, ships, containers, and the structures of buildings. Carbon steel, formerly made by the Bessemer, crucible, or open-hearth process, is now made by the basic oxygen process, or by an arc furnace. |
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| The PliWrench is made from high-carbon steel for strength and is drop forged, heat treated, oil quenched, plated and full polished. Bridgestone, Tokyo, Japan, will spend $90 million to build a factory in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China, that will produce high-carbon steel cord used to reinforce tires. Georgetown Steel, a manufacturer of high-carbon steel wire rod products, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last October and ceased production. |
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