English word senses marked with topical category "Steel"

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Total 22 word senses

• Bessemer steel (Noun) Steel made directly from cast iron by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal.
• austemper (Verb) To harden (a metal) and produce a stronger microstructure by heating it into the austenite region and then immediately quenching and removing any bainite and ausferrite.
• austenite (Noun) A solid solution of carbon or ferric carbide in iron that exists in steel at high temperatures.
• bronze steel (Noun) A hard tough alloy of tin, copper, and iron, formerly used for guns.
• cast steel (Noun) The steel making up a steel casting, in the sense of one cast to finished (net) or near-net shape: the product of a steel foundry (as opposed to a steel mill); the steel counterpart to cast iron.
• cementite (Noun) A form of iron carbide, Fe₃C, that is a component of steel.
• ferroalloy (Noun) Any alloy of iron and another metal, especially one of silicon, manganese, chromium, vanadium, tungsten, titanium and molybdenum; used in the production of specialist steels as they have a lower melting point than the pure metal.
• iron sand (Noun) steel filings used in fireworks.
• metallurgical coal (Noun) The type of coal used for the making of steel.
• nickel steel (Noun) steel that contains approximately 6% of nickel, increasing its strength
• plasteel (Noun) A fictional durable substance.
• sidero- (Prefix) Related to iron or steel, as in siderosis (fibrosis caused by iron deposits)
• siderurgy (Noun) The iron and steel industry.
• steel (Noun) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:; A flat iron.
• steel mill (Noun) An industrial facility that produces or processes steel.
• steel wool (Noun) Fine strips or threads of steel, usually formed into pads or balls and used as an abrasive.
• steelmaker (Noun) A company that produces steel.
• steelmaking (Noun) The manufacture of steel.
• steelworks (Noun) A place where steel is manufactured and/or shaped.
• steelyard (Noun) A place where steel (and possibly other metals as well) is stored and sold.
• vanadium steel (Noun) Any of a range of alloys of vanadium and steel having improved strength and high-temperature stability
• wire wool (Noun) Any of several wools made of metal wire; especially, steel wool (when not otherwise specified).

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