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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; -- opposed to alloy steel.

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  • noun Any of a range of alloys of iron and carbon whose properties depend on the proportion of carbon.

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  • noun steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains

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