soft steel
1Soft steel — Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …
2soft steel — noun : mild steel * * * soft steel, steel containing only a small percentage of carbon (less than 0.35 per cent); mild steel …
3soft steel. — See mild steel. [1865 70] * * * …
4soft steel. — See mild steel. [1865 70] …
5Steel wool — or wire wool is a bundle of strands of very fine soft steel filaments, used in finishing and repairing work to polish wood or metal objects, as well as for household cleaning. Steel wool is made from low carbon steel (low enough to be close to… …
6steel — /stil / (say steel) noun 1. iron in a modified form, artificially produced, containing a certain amount of carbon (more than in wrought iron and less than in cast iron) and other constituents, such as chromium, molybdenum, etc., and possessing a… …
7Steel engraving — Steel engraving, is a commercial engraving technique for printing illustrations, based on steel instead of copper. It has been rarely used in artistic printmaking, although was much used for reproductions in the 19th century. Steel engraving was… …
8soft´ly — soft «sft, soft», adjective, adverb, noun, interjection. –adj. 1. a) not hard; yielding readily to touch or pressure: »a soft tomato, soft ground, a soft bed. b) easily bent without breaking; not stiff; flexible: »Oil keeps leather soft.… …
9Soft water — the term used to describe types of water that contain few or no calcium or magnesium metal cations. The term is usually related to hard water , which does contain significant amounts of these ions.Soft water usually comes from peat or igneous… …
10steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …
