Definition of Case-hardened steel

1. Noun. Steel with a surface that is much harder than the interior metal.

Generic synonyms: Steel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Case-hardened Steel

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case-hardened steel (current term)
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Literary usage of Case-hardened steel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Metallography of Iron and Steel by Albert Sauveur (1912)
"Tempering Case Hardened Steel. — It has been seen that hardened high carbon steel generally subjected to a tempering process, reheated to some 200 or 300 ..."

2. Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance : a Manual for Shipbuilders by Thomas Walton (1908)
"... Manufacture of—Basic Steel—Cementation Steel—case-hardened steel—Crucible Steel—Steel Castings— Forgings—Iron and Steel Sections used in Shipbuilding. ..."

3. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"Researches on the Manufacture of case-hardened steel". ... ("Liquation Phenomena which Occur in case-hardened steel".) Ibid., vol. XXXIX., No. 11, 1909. 6. ..."

4. Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance by Thomas Walton (1902)
"... Manufacture of—Basic Steel—Cementation Steel—case-hardened steel—Crucible Steel—Steel Castings— Forgings—Iron and Steel Sections used in Shipbuilding. ..."

5. Aircraft and Automobile Materials of Construction by Arthur William Judge (1920)
"... of Case-Hardened Steel. The next operation—namely, that of hardening the ... CASEHARDENED STEEL."

6. Report of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American (1891)
"While, on the other hand, I have recently had unsatisfactory results with case-hardened steel and I infer that it is due to the difference in the grade of ..."

7. Quantitative Analysis by Edward G. Mahin (1919)
"case-hardened steel.—Cut a small piece of low carbon steel (about 0.02 percent to 0.05 perce, t carbon) and pack in raw bone, bone charcoal or any of the ..."

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