Ilmenite: alternatives and connections

A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green…

A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as…

An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.

A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.

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.

A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthor…

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…

A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.

Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and…

Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.

A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, sto…

An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.

A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.

A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and mangane…

An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.

Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a t…

A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.

A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from…