Carbon steel
A non-alloy steel, as classified under EN 10020, whose properties derive from carbon content rather than from deliberate alloying additions.
Also called plain carbon steel.
How it connects
Carbon steel is a kind of Steel.
Carbon steel is filed under Metal.
Other kinds of Steel: Galvanised steel, Stainless steel and Weathering steel.
In other taxonomies
- Carbon steelUniclass, Ma_40_52_83_12nearly the same
- carbon steelGetty AAT, 300010907nearly the same
- carbon steelWikidata, Q967996nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Carbon steel
4 terms, Stainless steel to Galvanised steel
Record
- Also called
- plain carbon steel
- Seen in the wild
- mild steel · low carbon steel
- Broader
- Steel
- Provenance
- referencedcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); EN 10020:2000, read 22 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/carbon-steelKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderSteeloutgoing
- narrowerSteelincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Steeloutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Ferrous metaloutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Metaloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Galvanised steeloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Stainless steeloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Weathering steeloutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Ma_40_52_83_12 | Carbon steel | nearly the same |
| Getty AAT | 300010907 | carbon steel | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q967996 | carbon steel | nearly the same |