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Carbon Steel

Steel containing carbon up to about 2% and only residual quantities of other elements except those added for deoxidization, with silicon usually limited to 0.60% and manganese to about 1.65%. Also termed “plain carbon steel”, “ordinary steel”, and “straight carbon steel”.

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