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Cast iron

Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.

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Iron 76% connected

The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite, magnetite, etc.…

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a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated

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any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

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any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

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a complex consisting of an organic base in association with hydrogen chloride

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a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

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a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

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a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

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a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms

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a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite

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a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite

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Barium noun · 84% connection

a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite

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a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element

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a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element

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Axe noun · 78% connection

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…

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Bessemer steel unknown · 78% connection

Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the…

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Blackwork noun · 78% connection

Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.

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Blast noun · 78% connection

A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore…

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Blasting noun · 78% connection

A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.

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Bloom noun · 78% connection

A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of a…

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Bloomery noun · 78% connection

A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.

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Blower noun · 78% connection

A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A…

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Bosh noun · 78% connection

One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or…

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Burden noun · 78% connection

The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.

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Cabbling noun · 78% connection

The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wro…

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Campaign noun · 78% connection

The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.

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