low-carbon steel

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low-carbon steel

[′lō ‚kär·bən ′stēl]

(metallurgy)

Steel containing 0.15% or less of carbon.

low-carbon steel

Steel having a carbon content less than 0.20%.

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Brownells offers Surface Hardening Compound (083-000-033) for heat treating low-carbon steel. I heat treat tool steel by heating to red hot, quenching in oil, and tempering in a 350 degree oven for an hour.

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The technology for especially low-carbon steel production was developed with application of thermodynamic calculations on the basis of the active experiment, which included production of the low-carbon intermediate product in the arc steel furnace (ASF), its out-of-furnace treatment on the ladle--furnace installation (LFI) and vacuum apparatus of chamber type (VD), and a complex of investigations of the metal quality (mechanical properties, amount and morphology of the non-metal inclusions).

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The Soviet Union is also providing 70,000 tons of low-carbon steel for a magnet that will be used to force electrically charged particles into curved paths, by which they can be identified.

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