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Inorganic Chemicals > Iron Compounds > Steel
Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Alloys > Steel
Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Alloys > Steel
Inorganic Chemicals > Metals > Alloys > Steel

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Steel  

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Scope note

  • A tough, malleable, iron-based alloy containing up to, but no more than, two percent carbon and often other metals. It is used in medicine and dentistry in implants and instrumentation.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under ALLOYS 1968-90; was see under METALS 1963-67

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