austenitic steel

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   steel that has enough nickel and chromium or manganese to retain austenite at atmospheric temperatures

   Broadersteel

Questions about austenitic steel

What does austenitic steel mean?

austenitic steel means "steel that has enough nickel and chromium or manganese to retain austenite at atmospheric temperatures".

Is austenitic steel a common word?

austenitic 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.