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RSC Publishing - RSC Advances - Carbon steel corrosion: a review of key surface properties and characterization methods
National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Increasing the Strength and Impact Toughness of Carbon Steel Using a Nanosized Eutectoid Resulting from Time-Controlled Quenching
IOPscience - Journal of Physics: Conference Series - Mechanical properties of carbon steel under uniaxial static tension
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carbon steel, metal manufactured from the elements iron and carbon, with the carbon imparting hardness and strength and determining the degree to which such physical properties exist. See steel.