mild steel

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   steel with less than 0.15% carbon

   Synonymslow-carbon steelsoft-cast steel

   Broadersteel

Questions about mild steel

What does mild steel mean?

mild steel means "steel with less than 0.15% carbon".

What is another word for mild steel?

Close synonyms include low-carbon steel, soft-cast steel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mild steel a common word?

mild 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.