manganese steel

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manganese steel (countable and uncountable, plural manganese steels)

  1. Cast steel containing a considerable percentage (10-14%) of manganese, which makes it very hard and tough and highly resistant to wear.
    • 1952 February, “Chromium and Sorbitic Steel Rails”, in Railway Magazine, page 73:
      During that period, the advantages of manganese steel, and of heat treatment by the sorbitic process, were advocated strongly on the Southern Area of that company.