case-hardened steel

Udd's invention of case-hardened steel as yet seemed all but useless.

Shef had finally given orders to fit the plates of case-hardened steel.

I The razor was made of case-hardened steel.

Soft lead does not cut case-hardened steel.

His spiked shield, the one made of case-hardened steel, landed a foot from Shef's hand.

The hull rang as the first hypervelocity missile struck the case-hardened steel of the bridge.

But the case-hardened steel would turn any ordinary sword, spear or arrow, and weighed no more than a second layer of wood.

Marisa slithered over to Bolan's side, and he heard the tiny sound of a small key against case-hardened steel.

Law-enforcement officials often tout the almost uncuttable, case-hardened steel bar as the best possible protection against car theft.

This was soon replaced with more effective case-hardened steel armour made using the Harvey process developed in the United States.

Of all the innovations Udd had brought, though, none interested Thorvin and the other smiths more than the case-hardened steel.

If Jager was an iron wolf, this, then, was Tyrannosaurus rex in case-hardened steel.

Some receivers constructed of single-heat-treated case-hardened steel were improperly subjected to excessive temperatures during the forging process.

On impulse, Shef passed him also the shield that Udd had made, case-hardened steel pegged over plain wood.

The opening was securely barred and covered with a heavy iron grate, locked with a fat, case-hardened steel padlock.

Their speed was made possible due to another development, Case-hardened steel armor-first Harvey armor and then crucially Krupp armor.

The housing can be made of aluminium or steel, the top jaws are made of case-hardened steel, tempered steel and burnished.

This was particularly true of early Stens using bronze bolts, where the sear projection underneath the bolt could wear down more easily than ones made of case-hardened steel.

Jaleel Zabaneh, the supermarket owner, looked on proudly as the welders worked on his door and installed a monstrous set of case-hardened steel locks, costing about $300 a set.

Disguised as a blind man's cane in civilian garb, it is a multi-purpose weapon and tool that contains thirty feet of aircraft control cable connected to a case-hardened steel grapnel.

The peasants were in the center, shielded by eight hundred surviving dragoons, and the medieval footmen weren't making much progress against the case-hardened steel and flashing hooves of the Victorian heavy cavalry-but for every one my horsemen killed, three more popped up in his place.

Because it is designed to support its own weight for combined lengths that often exceed 1 mile down into the Earth's crust, the case-hardened steel tubes are expensive, and owners spend considerable efforts to reuse them after finishing a well, replacing the drill stems with thinner walled tubular casing, tapping the natural resources of oil reservoirs.