hard steel

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   steel with more than 0.3% carbon

   Broadersteel

Questions about hard steel

What does hard steel mean?

hard steel means "steel with more than 0.3% carbon".

Is hard steel a common word?

hard 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.