alloy steel

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   steel who characteristics are determined by the addition of other elements in addition to carbon

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Questions about alloy steel

What does alloy steel mean?

alloy steel means "steel who characteristics are determined by the addition of other elements in addition to carbon".

Is alloy steel a common word?

alloy steel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.