For more than a century, steel has been the most important metal in industry. By the turn of the twentieth century, steel had replaced its parent metal, iron, as the primary metal for heavy industries such as construction, railroads, and, later, the...

Alloy steels are made of steel combined with other metals such as nickel, chromium, or vanadium. The result of combining the metals is a steel product that has increased hardness, strength, durability, malleability, and resistance to corrosion. The...

An alloy of iron incorporating a carbon content of around 0.1–1.7 per cent. Iron with a higher carbon content is usually produced from a process in which the molten metal is cooled in moulds, the product being known as CAST IRON. Iron with a...

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Steel is an alloy consisting mostly of iron, with a carbon content between 0.2 and 1.7 or 2.04% by weight (C:1000–10,8.67Fe), depending on grade. Carbon is the most cost-effective alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are...

Conspiracy: Unless the feds had something to do with it, the theory held by Rosie and others that the Twin Towers were brought down by the Bush administration just crashed and burned on a California freeway.In recent discussions on the jaundiced "View" and her Web...

Talk about molten steel. Driven by strong global demand and rising steel prices, steel company profitability is at an all-time high and stocks have become red-hot in a frenzy of takeover talks. Industry giant Mittal Steel bought No. 2 Arcelor for $35 billion after a...

United States Steel Corp. is buying Canadian steel maker Stelco Inc. for about $1.1 billion in a move expected to bolster its position as a supplier to the North American automotive industry.The Pittsburgh-based company said the cash deal will increase its production capacity to about...

United States Steel Corp. on Tuesday reported substantially lower fourth-quarter profit as acquisition-related costs, job cuts in Europe, lower prices and outage costs weighed down results. Its shares fell nearly 7 percent.For the three months ended in December, the Pittsburgh-based company earned $35 million, or...