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These inexpensive saws are perfectly fine for cutting small pieces of mild steel (such as small-diameter rod, up to 3/8 inch) and small pieces of tubing (up to 3/4 inch).
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Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
Four bladesmiths pick their mild steel to make a san mai blade, and the surviving smiths must re-create the Belgian Walloon sword.
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Washington Post, 14 July 2021
The horizontal weld that attaches a mild steel angle to the slider rail for super doubles/pintle hook operations may be missing.
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Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2021
The ornament, also by rvmetalshop, is constructed from 14-gauge, hot-rolled, mild steel and covered with a thin layer of black oxide ($12, 3.25 inches and 2.5 inches) and is sold on Etsy.
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oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2019
It was made of mild steel instead of corrosion-resistant copper nickel.
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Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2019
Jindal Steel & Power, the Indian steelmaker controlled by billionaire Savitri Jindal’s family, manufactures sponge iron, mild steel, and cement.
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Paul Burkhardt, Bloomberg.com, 26 June 2018
Its tensile strength is greater than that of mild steel.
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The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
Slender poles of mild steel anchored in rough-hewn blocks of stone reference Norway's modern exports, while the polished discs of copper summon a long history of ore-extraction and copper-smelting.
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Georgina Schaeffer, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2013
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First Known Use
1850, in the meaning defined above
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“Mild steel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mild%20steel. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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