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The engineers are running programs that show how adding tiny amounts of alloys to ferrite and martensite—crystalline structures of iron—during the steelmaking process changes the steel's strength, as well as its ability to be shaped into different parts.
Metal Firms Seek Weight Loss Robert Guy Matthews 2011
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Arcelor has been ramping up its production of steel's two main ingredients, coal and iron ore, to bypass suppliers who have been able to charge hefty prices since the beginning of a China-driven commodity boom a decade ago.
Arcelor Sees Tentative Recovery John W. Miller 2012
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And they're bringing more attention to Braddock and the painful impact of the steel's industry's decline, which also is a good thing.
Kirk Cheyfitz: To Sell Jeans, Levi's Tells a News Story of Urban Distress 2010
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Pegoretti's obsession with steel's distinctive scent indicates we may be entering into the era of the "olfactory custom:"
Intangibles: Steel is Real, but How does it Smell? BikeSnobNYC 2010
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And they're bringing more attention to Braddock and the painful impact of the steel's industry's decline, which also is a good thing.
Kirk Cheyfitz: To Sell Jeans, Levi's Tells a News Story of Urban Distress 2010
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When the industry faltered — hit by cheap imports, lax management, labor strife and declining domestic demand — steel's leaders sought and won years of tariff and quota protection.
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Speaking of steel's intrinsically circular reality, I was very fortunate to receive a book from Rizzoli publishers recently called "The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles":
BSNYC Product Review: Bicycle Book Shootout! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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They say the opposite, that the first failures happened at temperatures lower than the point where you'd expect steel's loss of capacity due to thermal softening to be an issue.
"W.T.C. 7 Brought Down by Fire, Not Explosives, Report Says." Ann Althouse 2008
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"People are rotating out of the big momentum names ... coal's getting decimated again, and steel's down," said Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategist with Schaeffer's Investment Research.
Lenders, Health Care 2008
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Mr. Weaver says it was easy to do so because of stainless steel's natural durability and resistance to scratching.
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