hypo-eutectoid steel

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   a steel that contains less that 0.9% carbon

   Broadercarbon steel

Questions about hypo-eutectoid steel

What does hypo-eutectoid steel mean?

hypo-eutectoid steel means "a steel that contains less that 0.9% carbon".

Is hypo-eutectoid steel a common word?

hypo-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.