3. Cutting tools
3.1 Materials used
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High-speed steels
The choice of high-speed steel depends on a number of parameters, such as heat resistance, scaling resistance and wear resistance.
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Metal carbides
Metal carbides are sintered materials made up of very hard particles of tungsten carbide, titanium, tantalum, etc., and a binder, cobalt.
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