vanadium steel

noun

1. an alloy steel containing vanadium.

vanadium steel

noun

1. engineering steel containing up to 0.5 per cent vanadium, usually with 1.1–1.5 per cent chromium and 0.4–0.5 per cent carbon to increase its tensile strength and elasticity

Word History and Origins

Origin of vanadium steel¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

The immediate challenge is that the birth of the vanadium battery business is coming just as China is ramping up its demand for vanadium steel.

From BBC

The connecting rods are tubular and machined from chrome vanadium steel forgings.

From Project Gutenberg

They also use a quantity of vanadium steel imported from America and furnished by the American Vanadium Company.

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Yet if it had not been for vanadium steel we should have no Ford cars.

From Project Gutenberg

Other airmen of yours have just reported that nothing can be found but ruins of the Socialist refuge, there—nothing but those, and the half-melted vanadium steel identification-tags of your best scouts!

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