Weight for weight, pea soup would be as effective armor against meteors as hardened steel.
Many advances have been made to eliminate this problem such as the use of ceramic and hardened steel.
At least, that's what Nylan thought smiths called narrowing the cutting edge and adding a thin layer of hardened iron/crude steel.
Whole interior and exterior of the revolver is made of a hardened stainless steel.
The 7N21 bullet features a hardened (sub-caliber) steel penetrator core, enclosed by a bimetal jacket.
Less than a few seconds remained before the cold, hardened steel severed John's racing heart from his head.
This type of hardened self-hardening steel was the first high speed steel.
Garments made of a combination of ceramic and hardened steel backed by Kevlar can resist high-velocity rifle bullets.
However higher quality side cutters can cut hardened steel, such as 2 mm piano wire.
Fully floating hollow gudgeon pins of hardened nickel-chrome steel.