Steel

Steel

Steel is an alloy made by combining iron and other elements, the most common of these being carbon. When carbon is used, its content in the steel is between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Other alloying elements sometimes used are manganese, chromium, vanadium and tungsten.

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Famous quotes containing the word steel:

    “You don’t resign from these jobs, you escape from them.”
    —Dawn Steel (b. 1946)

    “The colored people arrive, sit firmly down,
    Eat their Express Spaghetti, their T-bone steak,
    Handling their steel and crockery with no clatter,
    Laugh punily, rise, go firmly out of the door.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

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    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)