steel engraving | the act of engraving on a steel plate |
accelerator particle accelerator atom smasher | a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles |
fiberboard fibreboard particle board | wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets |
Hawaiian guitar steel guitar | guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect |
particle detector | a chamber in which particles can be made visible |
steel | knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod |
steel arch bridge | a steel bridge constructed in the form of an arch |
steel drum | a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum, has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin) |
steel engraving | engraving on a steel plate |
steel engraving | an impression taken from an engraved steel plate |
steel mill steelworks steel plant steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
steel plate | a plate of steel |
steel trap | a trap made of steel with a strong spring and sharp toothlike projections to hold the prey |
steel-wool pad | abrader consisting of a pad of steel wool used for polishing or smoothing |
sword blade brand steel | a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard |
duality wave-particle duality | (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory |
steel blue | a greyish blue color |
steel trap | an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well-known sharpness of steel traps), he's as sharp as a steel trap, a mind like a steel trap |
particle physics high-energy physics high energy physics | the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions |
particle | a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs |
steel company | a company that makes and sells steel |
steel industry | the industry that makes steel and steel products |
steel band | a band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands) |
alpha particle | a positively charged particle that is the nucleus of the helium atom, emitted from natural or radioactive isotopes |
antitauon tau-plus particle | an antilepton of very great mass |
baryon heavy particle | any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions, a hadron with a baryon number of |
beta particle | a high-speed electron or positron emitted in the decay of a radioactive isotope |
elementary particle fundamental particle | (physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom, regarded as constituents of all matter |
J particle psi particle | a neutral meson with a large mass |
kaon kappa-meson k-meson K particle | an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision |
lambda particle lambda hyperon | an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin |
particle subatomic particle | a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions |
strange particle | an elementary particle with non-zero strangeness |
tauon tau-minus particle | a lepton of very great mass |
weakly interacting massive particle WIMP | a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation, postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe |
particle beam | a collimated flow of particles (atoms or electrons or molecules) |
steel production | making steel from pig iron |
small-particle pollution | air pollution caused by fine particles of soot (as from power plants or diesel engines) |
atom molecule particle corpuscle mote speck | (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything |
dispersed phase dispersed particles | (of colloids) a substance in the colloidal state |
alloy steel | steel who characteristics are determined by the addition of other elements in addition to carbon |
austenitic steel | steel that has enough nickel and chromium or manganese to retain austenite at atmospheric temperatures |
case-hardened steel | steel with a surface that is much harder than the interior metal |
steel | an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon, widely used in construction, mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range |
stainless steel stainless chromium steel | steel containing chromium that makes it resistant to corrosion |
carbon steel | steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains |
crucible steel | steel made by the mixture of molten wrought iron, charcoal, and other substances in a crucible |
Damascus steel Damask steel | a hard resilient steel often decorated and used for sword blades |
steel wool wire wool | a mass of woven steel fibers used as an abrasive |
chisel steel | steel used in making chisels |