CARBON STEEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carbon steel mean? 

• CARBON STEEL (noun)
  The noun CARBON STEEL has 1 sense:

1. steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains

  Familiarity information: CARBON STEEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARBON STEEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("carbon steel" is a kind of...):

steel (an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carbon steel"):

drill rod; drill steel (carbon steel used for rock drills and dowels)

eutectoid steel (a steel that contains 0.9% carbon (the eutectic point); a carbon steel with 0.9% carbon is pure pearlite)

hyper-eutectoid steel (a steel that contains more than 0.9% carbon)

hypo-eutectoid steel (a steel that contains less that 0.9% carbon)