Steel wool
steel wool (countable and uncountable, plural steel wools)
- Fine strips or threads of steel, usually formed into pads or balls and used as an abrasive.
- Hypernyms: wool; wire wool (loosely synonymous)
- Coordinate terms: pot scrubber, scourer, scrubber, scrubby; wool
Don’t use the steel wool on this pan; you’ll strip off the Teflon coating.
fine threads of steel
- Arabic: سِلْك اَلتَّنْظِيف (silk at-tanẓīf)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鋼絲絨／钢丝绒 (zh) (gāngsīróng), 鋼絲球／钢丝球 (zh) (gāngsīqiú) (shaped as a ball)
- Czech: drátěnka f
- Danish: ståluld (da) c
- Finnish: teräsvilla (fi)
- French: paille de fer (fr) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Stahlwolle f
- Hungarian: acélgyapot, acélforgács (hu), fémforgács (hu), vasforgács (hu), fémsúroló, dörzskefe, dörzsi
- Icelandic: stálull f
- Italian: paglietta (it) f
- Macedonian: челична волна f (čelična volna)
- Maori: wūru maitai
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: төмөр зүлгүүр (tömör zülgüür)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stålull m or f
- Nynorsk: stålull f
- Portuguese: palha de aço f, esponja de aço f, lã de aço f, bombril (pt) m
- Romanian: burete de sârmă m
- Spanish: estropajo de acero m
- Swedish: stålull (sv) c, svinto (sv) c (genericized trademark)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: bulaşık teli, tel (tr)
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