2. Verb. (third-person singular of steel) ¹
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Definition of Steels
1. steel [v] - See also: steel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steels
Literary usage of Steels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel by Albert Sauveur (1918)
"nation of pearlite is also often more minute in special steels while for same
carbon content it often appears to occupy a larger bulk. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1922)
"(New York Meeting, February, 1921) IT is twenty years since the writer made his
first molybdenum steels and others were making them commercially five years ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1920)
"Some manufacturers employed as many as fifteen steels while the builder of ...
Nickel-chromium steels were used at some works for case-hardening while at ..."
4. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson, Morton Owen Withey (1919)
"Both the strength and hardness of tungsten steels can be raised materially by
heat treatment. 733. Vanadium Steel.—Although the strength and hardness of ..."
5. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson (1918)
"Consequently vanadium steels require higher temperatures (30 to 40° C.) for hardening
and annealing than carbon steels. Vanadium renders the coalescence of ..."
6. Steel and Its Heat Treatment by Denison Kingsley Bullens (1916)
"But before proceeding to a discussion of such steels, it is desirable to amplify
the remarks we have previously made upon the subject of pearlitic manganese ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Nickel steels melt at a lower heat than the corresponding carbon steels; ...
Another very important application of nickel steels is suggested by the ..."
8. Materials of Construction: Their Manufacture and Properties by Adelbert Philo Mills (1922)
"Annealing at 750° C. (1382° F.) has little effect upon the strength of low- and
medium-carbon steels, but decreases the strength of high-carbon steels ..."
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