manganese steel

English

Noun

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.