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Alloy of iron and carbon in which the carbon content may range from less than 0.015% to slightly more than 2%. Adding this tiny amount of carbon produces a material that exhibits great strength, hardness, and other valuable mechanical properties. Carbon steels account for about 90% of the world's steel production. They are used extensively for automobile bodies, appliances, machinery, ships, containers, and the structures of buildings. Carbon steel, formerly made by the Bessemer, crucible, or open-hearth process, is now made by the basic oxygen process, or by an arc furnace.

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1.Steel having no specified minimum content of alloying elements.
2. Steel having a specified minimum copper content not exceeding 0.40%.
3. Steel having a maximum specified content as follows: manganese 1.65%, silicon 0.60%, copper 0.60%.

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