eutectoid steel

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

   Broadercarbon steel

Questions about eutectoid steel

What does eutectoid steel mean?

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

Is eutectoid steel a common word?

eutectoid 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.