pearlite

As nouns the difference between steel and pearlite

is that steel is an artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness while pearlite is a two-phased lamellar structure composed of alternating layers of alpha ferrite and cementite that occurs in some steels and cast irons, having a pearlescent appearance.

As an adjective steel

is made of steel.

As a verb steel

is to edge, cover, or point with steel.

As a proper noun steel

is Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.

As nouns the difference between cementite and pearlite

is that cementite is a form of iron carbide, Fe₃C, that is a component of steel while pearlite is a two-phased lamellar structure composed of alternating layers of alpha ferrite and cementite that occurs in some steels and cast irons, having a pearlescent appearance.

As an adjective lamellar

is of or pertaining to a lamella, plate-like, flat and thin.

As a noun pearlite is

a two-phased lamellar structure composed of alternating layers of alpha ferrite and cementite that occurs in some steels and cast irons, having a pearlescent appearance.

As a noun pearlite

is a two-phased lamellar structure composed of alternating layers of alpha ferrite and cementite that occurs in some steels and cast irons, having a pearlescent appearance.

As a verb martemper is

to subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.